Liz C

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols