Ashley

“Morally dubious people make great art all the time. Justin Timberlake’s Justified is a great album, for instance.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“A lot was written about romantic love, Avery thought, about the profundity of that embrace. Bu this, too, was deserving of rapture, of song. Before she ever knew a lover's body, she knew her sisters', could see herself in their long feet and light eyes, their sleek limbs and curled ears. And, before life became big and difficult, there were moments with them when it was simply good: an early morning, still dark out, their parents asleep. Her younger sisters arriving one by one at her bedside, hair tangled, exuding their sour and sweet morning musk. She'd lifted the covers for each of them, letting them crowd into her bottom bunk, bodies pressed tight against one another, and they'd fallen asleep again like that, dropping off like puppies curled around a mother's warm belly.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“It rolls off the tongue and made you feel the same kind of sexy as the Olsen twins when they're whispering "prune" while posing for a photograph.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“Your 20s are the time when you master what you think you're supposed to do. But in your 30s, when you've figured out what you like and don't like, and you're more confident, you can move on to what you really want to do, which might be totally different.”
― Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens