Em-nat

“How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again.
Even as you live.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

“That's what intimacy is, I think. That's love. Knowing the smell of someone else's head.”
― Rachel Harrison, The Return

“My eyes close, and it’s here. The transcendent knowledge that nothing can touch me. That I’m not in danger, because I am danger.”
― Rachel Harrison, Such Sharp Teeth