Lori

“I had not realized how far gone she was and how much she dreaded the homecoming, the ghost. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

“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

“Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for today
Adjudicate
Legislate
Scandalize
Capitalize
here are Kreon's nouns
Men
Reason
Treason
Death
Ship of State
Mine
Chorus: "mine" isn't a noun
Kreon: it is if you capitalize it”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / the rattle of bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air