Clara

“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Liberal critiques of sex work often frame it within questions relating to consent. Does a sex worker consent to work? These critiques ignore issues of consent within other industries. Does any worker consent to work?”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

“I don't know why I thought of Dottie as my friend but I did. I believe she thought the same way about me although she really didn't like me. In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact