“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”

“And this is not a science lesson anymore / Forget the last diagram / These are survival tactics” – Kenny Bradley, “Cells are products of their environments too”

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

“I can’t remember the words of things. The words for words. I have lost my words. What’s this from? Is is the Internet?” – Aimee Bender, “Wordkeepers”

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me…” – Jorge Luis Borges

“The Alicia was so much smaller than most of the other buildings around her, and so much more interesting. She was special.” – Juan Martinez, ‘Extended Stay’

“We play by the ‘suggestion’ method: one person changes chords, and gradually, the rest of the band comes around to that suggestion.” – Dave Barry, interviewed on the Cracked podcast, paraphrased

“He readed in his front chest pocket, fished out a Marlboro, and lit it. ‘So what the hell we been serving then?'” – Anthony Bourdain, ‘Bone In The Throat’

“basketball is like jazz” – ancient That Guy proverb

“I like flycrusted, offal poetry / I like dead, stuffed & waterlogged poetry” – Adrian Sobol, “GARBAGE POETRY”