Mark

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Nothing says failed lesbianism quite like an accidental pregnancy.”
― Carlie Martece, Toxic Nursery

“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered by a corrupt and inept civic and religious establishment, troubled by a past that it barely understood—to the contemporary eye, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico City looks oddly familiar. In its dystopic way, it was an amazingly contemporary place, unlike any other then on the planet. It was the first twenty-first-century city, the first of today’s modern, globalized megalopolises.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

“Secondary school was horrific. There was continued pressure to become an adult human, and we had never prepared for this, having planned to become an alien warrior princess before primary school was over.”
― Carlie Martece, Toxic Nursery