Dana

“My father used to munch on whole onions as if they were apples, I'd told her once. I thought of it as evidence of his hearty Russian peasant appetite and ways. No one who ate onions like that could have a weak constitution. A few days later, alone in the kitchen, I impulsively took a bite out of a red onion, to feel what it was like. In the bedroom, all the way at the other end of the apartment, Aura heard the crunch and shouted, Did you just bite into an onion?! Don't you even try to kiss me now!
How did she know it wasn't an apple?”
― Francisco Goldman, Say Her Name

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“Everything we run away from has power over us; everything we go through, we conquer!”
― Barbara Reed

“I looked down and realized I had champagne, Diet Coke, red wine, Coors Light, bottled water, and hot tea on my tray all at once. The rich, I realized, were different from you and me only in their unlimited access to beverages. For a moment I was intensely happy.”
― Tony Earley, Somehow Form a Family: Stories that Are Mostly True