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“I’m stuck here in a cycle and I am getting older but I am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad or is soft because too many hands have squeezed it but then put it back down not because I am not ready but because they were not ready for my type of fruity flesh. I felt so ripe and sweet—what was off? The truth is, I was forcing myself into people’s mouths. I jumped out of their hands and into their mouths and I yelled EAT ME way before they even had a chance to get hungry and notice me and lift me up.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“plates of apple and pear slices, but everyone was so full from lunch”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“Os dias que antecederam a iniciação passaram como um gabiru correndo em cima do telhado.”
― Italo Oliveira, A Noite das Mortalhas

“And before you answer, it continues, just know that you don’t have to say yes.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy