CJ Thomas

“Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black. Pinpoints of light swell, sparkle, burst and shrivel within it, countless as stars. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“was often told not to fail international students because cash-strapped universities desperately needed their higher rate of international student fees.”
― Matt Goodwin, Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity

“Some people have a tendency to dip their tongues in a pot of foolishness before they speak, Ned. Most don’t mean it.”
― S.W. Perry, The Saracen's Mark