Nicole Lemon

“I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.”
― Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods

“We try to get out of these cocoons and make our way down to where our bodies are. We try shoplifting and racist/sexist/ageist humor (trying to offend our way out); we get naked on stage. We try sleep deprivation and razors on our skin. We date creepy, scary sleazes who we half-hope, half-fear might do the cutting for us. But we’re so used to living inside a dream, even cutting feels dreamy. We can’t get out. We can’t wake up.”
― Lisa Crystal Carver, Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir

“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”
― Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place

“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School