Erica

“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words, queer words that we spoke on-stage for money in the land of the brave. With no valid permit, license, visa or contract to do so. Felons, really, all of us, and now we intended to flee the scene without paying income tax on the twelve dollars and fifty American cents we each made. It's just this kind of shameless law-breaking that gives all poets a bad name.”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Boys Like Her: Transfictions

“I learned in high school, if I hold up an effigy, a mask, or a lie, that mask will get all the love, not me.”
― Lynn Breedlove

“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

“They both knew when it was appropriate to eat and how to give a compliment, and spent a lot of time saying hello and goodbye.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries