“The way of the world isn’t the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak…” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Obelisk Gate’

“The minute you walk on the beach it is a very different feeling from any beach I’ve ever been on,” – GiGi Lucas, founder of SurfearNegra

“Survival doesn’t mean rightness.” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Fifth Season’

“I love to write love poems. I love loving.” – Audre Lorde, interviewed by Claudia Tate

“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”