Nicole

“Roger's heart grows erect, and comes. That's really how it feels. Up sharply to skin level in a V around his centerline, washing over his nipples... it is love, it is amazing.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, noncommercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for conviviality. And I’m suggesting that we fiercely protect our human animality against all technologies that actively ignore and disdain the body, the bodies of other beings, and the body of the landscape that we inhabit.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy