Lori

“An individual is no match for history.”
― Roberto Bolaño

“Good women discuss these things the way epidemiologists identify and track disease without alarming the public. This is woman’s work. Men are unfitted for it by nature and should be protected from it the same way women shouldn’t have to go down the mines. Men are so innocent.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem
from the last years of her life that begins
"I lose my screams"
dear Antigone,
I take it as the task of the translator
to forbid that you should ever lose your screams”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick