Floretta Burde

“Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Nothing about sex ever shocks women. At least, men’s kind of sex.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“Sometimes when I felt the eyes crawling on me from all sides, I got scared thinking someone was looking who wasn’t just curious. I knew it was my imagination and I got used to it, learned to shunt it away. But sometimes I held onto it quietly, that feeling that someone behind or beside me in the crowd – some guy leaning on the target booth with a rifle, or some cranky sweating father spending too much on ride tickets to keep his kids away from him – anybody could be looking at me in the sidelong way that norms use to look at freaks, but thinking of me twitching and biting at the dirt while my guts spilled out of the big escape hatch he’d cut for them… a feeling like that is special. Sometimes you hold onto it quietly for a while.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love