Ellena Lockbaum

“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

“I’m telling you it’s cold inside the body that is not the body,
lonesome behind the face
that is certainly not the face
of the person one meant to become.”
― Denis Johnson

“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