Perta

“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung high overhead, the rhythm and drawl of daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what it is today. There is beauty in the discrepancy -- two things that seems oppositional, coming together.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

“You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies”
― Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

“I don't have much practice sitting in men's laps ... outside mall Santas when I was a little girl.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden