T > T's Quotes

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“I wasn't going to be his doll anymore. I'd give him plenty of ways to play with me, but I was going to be this man's God.”
― Taliesin Neith, Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror