Mel

“So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog.”
― Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

“The room behind the small guy had just enough furniture to suit someone who had nothing to do and thick enough curtains to make sure no one saw him not doing it.”
― Ki Longfellow, Shadow Roll

“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. The most moving moments of our lives find us without words. What can be explained with words is only the waves, the foam on the surface, but music has its place underneath the waves, in the silent depth of the unspeakable”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“I think much of what we camouflage as character-building in the world is actually destructive and aimed towards generating a culture of compliance.”
― Robin Ince, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity