Nikki

“So the Talmud says it was an evil place. It was a crime in Sodom to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. Beggars were given marked coins that no shop would accept. Welp. In the USA right now there are places where it’s a crime to help homeless people. Plenty of stores don’t accept food stamps. So are we in it? Do we have enough sense to get ourselves out if we are?”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“The writer was explaining how when a certain lover does something—that makes you nuts, whatever that may be—they bite your ear or say a certain dirty word or kiss a particular part of your body, it means everything, gets you off. But when you ask another lover to do the same exact thing, it has no meaning, no effect. You are unmoved.”
― Chloe Caldwell, Women

“You don’t know me but Kat forwarded your question. My depression and anxiety and disassociation symptoms greatly improved after menopause and lifelong relational avoidance patterns became conscious, visible”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“We burnt paper-money – we thought it was our fault, that we hadn’t done enough to appease the heavens. Everyone said, If we were richer, we could make more donations to the temple, we’d have better catches. They didn’t realise that there was nothing they could do about all the pollution flushing down the river that went right through the cities and emptied into the sea in front of our houses. Or from the offshore prawn farms that had started further up the coast where the water was deeper – you could smell the chemicals sometimes, late in the afternoon when the wind was blowing in the right direction”
― Tash Aw, We, the Survivors