Cassie

“It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

“A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

“Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters?
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation