Emily

“Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.”
― Adrian Matejka, Mixology

“The booze and lemon pledge Buchanan who choked lyrics, called it singing since guitar strings and vocal cords are made from different kinds of wheat.”
― Adrian Matejka, Mixology

“Hair spills

through my dreams, sprouts

from my stomach, thickens my heart,

and tangles the brain. Hair ties the tongue dumb.

Hair ascends the tree.

of my childhood -- the willow

I climbed

one bare foot and hand at a time,

feeling the knuckles of the gnarled tree, hearing

my father plead from his window, Don't fall!

”
― Li-Young Lee, Rose

“I need to believe in her stories as much as she does. That Lothar Berfelde navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels.”
― Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife