“Wear some socks, I say, looking down at my own bare ankles.” – Diane Seuss, “I’m full of sadness”

“Colonizers write about flowers. / I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks / seconds before becoming daisies.” – Noor Hindi, “Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying”

“She had what it took…the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

“He paused and maneuvered his thoughts. It was like watching oil tankers doing three-point turns in the English Channel” – Douglas Adams, ‘So Long And Thanks For All The Fish’

“Look, there’s somewhere you can take us where we can have fun…we can get drunk and maybe listen to some extremely evil music.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Life, The Universe, and Everything’

“This reality is so fixed & it can’t always / be a matter of escaping to other realms, right.” – Alina Pleskova, “Blood Moon”

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—” – Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe’

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Let the emptiness our war heroes carry be the metaphor for a while.” – Ross Gay, “The High-Five From Strangers, Etc.”

“She knew better than to envision any further: the future was a room with a warp on the floor.” – Tiffany Morris, “Night in the Chrysalis”