‘The interesting thing is that shame and indifference can manifest the same on the outside.’

— Tad DeLay, Against

‘…a few familiar forms stagnating in utility…’

— Martin Vaughn-James, The Cage

‘To me the book was worth something because it made me cry and feel afraid.’

— Megan Nolan.

‘You can love a city, you can recognise its houses and its streets in your remotest or dearest memories, but only in the hour of revolt is the city really felt as your own city’ — Furio Jesi, Spartakus

‘The weeping spider is called Phoebe, he is a boy spider and he lives on the moon. The rest you will have to find out yourself.’

— Catherine Besterman, The Extraordinary Education of Johnny Longfoot

Does it count if you push the bees to hive within a skull? It doesn’t count, & the honey that you get is nothing.

‘Nature is a haunted house  — but Art — a house that tries to be haunted.’

— Emily Dickinson.

‘It happened that before you arrived here, all the dreams had been dreamed, and you had entered a dreamless territory.’

— Can Xue, ‘An Episode With No Foundation’