Leigh

“All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die.”
― Jennifer Hayden, The Story of My Tits

“The subject of teaching Shakespeare at college level having been introduced: “First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.” Kinbote: “You appreciate particularly the purple passages?” Shade: “Yes, my dear Charles, I roll upon them as a grateful mongrel on a spot of turf fouled by a Great Dane.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
― E L Konigsburg, 天使雕像