Ashley

“The glorious imprecision of language, the impossible endeavour of saying what you mean to another. She sees, with benevolent distance, how hopeless and winsome it is to be in this skin. How human it is to attempt a futile expression of your innermost secrets to another by vibrating strings in your throat to make an avalanche of sentences. To laugh, to sing, to cry out loud. How we all wish so badly to be heard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“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

“When you're young, you marry someone who has the qualities you wish you had...As you grow older, one of two things happens. Either you start to find those difference increasingly annoying and you grow apart, or...you gradually become more like the other, even as you remain who you are".”
― Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens

“Liberal Americans have a penchant for magnifying authoritarian quirks without taking a good hard look at the gutted state of populist democracy in their own backyard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake