Matty

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“What moved him was a sense of those worlds around us, our knowledge however imperfect of their nature, or sense of their possessing some grain of our past and of our lives to come. It was that most powerful sense of our being alive on the planet. It was the most powerful sense of how singular, in the vastness of creation, is the richness of our opportunity. The sense of that hour was of an exquisite privilege, the great benefice of living here and renewing ourselves with love. What a paradise it seemed!”
― John Cheever, Oh What a Paradise It Seems

“His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred