Chris

“The archaic mother—Tiamat, or the T. rex—is an unlikely role model. Even in all her power, she’s ugly: slimy, roaring, irrational, seemingly little more than a uterus with some anger management issues attached. (But enough about me!)”
― Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger

“There was nothing that Clara disliked so much as what was tedious; at such times her intellectual sleepiness was not to be overcome; it was betrayed both in her glances and in her words.”
― Italo Calvino, Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

“She kept her silence and pictured the faces of her daughter and grandsons, the atheist’s prayer.”
― Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind