Erin

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“That first night he rolled over and gave me half of his bed to sleep on but by the second night, reprehensible as it seemed, he insisted I use my body to pay him rent. A little send-off. It is hard to know sometimes what constitutes “rape.” Rape is a black dot in the center of a dark smudge in the center of a very big grey cloud that dissipates and pales at the edges. I have found myself in various gradations of powerlessness around that dark center and never quite known what the name is for where I am.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

“Music was an entry point, like a passport or a key that allows you through an invisible portal into the beating heart of the world. The collective heart that unites us . . . (in a unified field of consciousness, in the bodily experience of being animals in time) and also into the hearts of individuals . . . (into that person and that person). Music showed itself to me as a fractal way in.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

“We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson