Quartknee

“If you're going to cry, go to church and pray for the living. The dead don't need your tears.”
― Lydia Kang, The Impossible Girl

“We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would chop off our breasts. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean because we like to laugh. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. Being rude to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Sisterhood is powerful, but being a bitch is more exhilarating. Being a bitch is spectacular.”
― Myriam Gurba, Mean

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dosage makes a thing not poison.”
― Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

“This guilt was an invisible but heavy albatross hanging around my neck. (That’s a reference to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.) I wear that bird like Björk wore her swan dress. I wave from a red carpet leading to hell.”
― Myriam Gurba, Mean