Joshua

“that most embarrassing of statistical fictions, the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon

“she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it’s a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.”
― Dale Peck, The Law of Enclosures

“One has to tell people what to think. There’s no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“When the right person does the wrong thing, it’s the right thing.”
― Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance