Morgan

“What's with you and men being good?'

'Never met a good one, that's all,' he says. 'Adult men, Tink. Most fucked-up creatures on the planet. Don't ever trust 'em'.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“She Was Just A Sketch

a thin girl under a thick sky

so thin, each rib stood
for something

something to which this great tenderness,
a mere irrational love
toward certain flowers
and trees,
could attach

—Olena Kalytiak Davis, from “Welcome to Lascaux,” And Her Soul Out of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)”
― Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

“Slim’s always talking about this, the little movies within the movie of your own life. Life lived in multiple dimensions. Life lived from multiple vantage points. One moment in time – several people meeting at a circular dining table before taking their seats – but a moment with multiple points of view. In these moments time doesn’t just move forward, it can move sideways, expanding to accommodate infinite points of view, and if you add up all these vantage point moments you might have something close to eternity passing sideways within a single moment. Or something like that.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations