Nora O’Dea

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher

“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

“There is something female about being dead.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

“I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nature and to lend them a sort of sanctification.”
― Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood