Eva Wolfie

“Neither you nor I have any confidence that human civilization as we know it is going to persist beyond our lifetimes. But then again, no matter what I do, hundreds of thousands of babies will be born on the same day as this hypothetical baby of mine. Their futures are surely just as important as the future of my hypothetical baby, who is distinguished only by its relationship to me and also to the man I love. I suppose I mean that children are coming anyway, and in the grand scheme of things it won't matter much whether any of them are mine or his. We have to try either way to build a world they can live in. And I feel in a strange sense that I want to be on the children's side, and on the side of their mothers; to be with them, not just an observer, admiring them from a distance, speculating about their best interests, but one of them.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“Nature was passionate and unpredictable and could undermine the relationship between God and man, based as it was on obedience.”
― Mary Condren, The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland

“Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.”
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World