Ellena Lockbaum

“I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well”
― Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

“Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability-except the order of a dead universr filled with a uniformly distributed gas.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Berger’s eyes narrowed. She turned ice-cold. She had had enough of the word whore.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest