Karl Orbell

“What strikes me now is why did they send the boys away? Why don’t boys get educated about menstruation? Is it because the teachers think girls will be embarrassed? I feel like the secrecy of it, the action of segregating us, sends the message that we should be ashamed. That our periods are something to hide from the opposite sex.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

“Words are wind. If you love me, do not leave me.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Then since we mortal lovers are,
Ask not how long our love may last;
But while it does, let us take care
Each minute be with pleasure passed:
Were it not madness to deny
To live because we're sure to die?”
― George Etherege, Works: Plays and Poems. Edited With Critical Notes and Introduction