New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar.

In the context of the English language, there were many more important words than in. There were fancy words, historic words, words that meant life or death. There were multi-syllabic tongue-twisters...

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the Fuck you signs in the world. It's impossible.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimes it looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar but different in t...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri...

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. Was it? Yes. What about No, no, that...

Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.

Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift...

Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he’d jabbed a sew...

A hand touched my shoulder, shaking me. I was back on the bus. It was dark and warm and I just wanted to sleep, but Chloe kept shaking my shoulder. she whispered.

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...