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

“Most people are not Carries. They are Mirandas or Charlottes, people who have a lot of rules that prevent them from finding love but eventually meet the right person and all those rules are thrown out the window.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“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

“The bells and whistles of consumption save them from having to really connect. They can while away hours engaged in some form of opulent activity, seemingly together, yet without exactly being with each other.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake