Nick

“I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them.”
― Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman

“Why, it's a commandment handed down by our ancestors. That was the way they behaved--"

"And I suppose their conduct was invariably impeccable, huh?" Chris mocked. "One of the reasons I've always had respect for polygamy is that our ancestors handed it down to us.”
― Mongo Beti, King Lazarus: A Novel

“As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.”
― Susan Sontag, I, etcetera