Michaela Younge & Rhys Coren

"All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful."

—Flannery O’Conner

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

—Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."

—Raymond Williams Ressources of Hope

"Driving down on a a fall afternoon into the quiet centre of things."

—Lazar Berman The Double Bell of Heat

"I want to put you in a vase so you stay fresh, but I’ve wondered off, and now nobody knows

where I am."

—Maren Kames Luna Luna

"Beauty is that which deviates from the norm."

–Hans Werner Henze

"It’s easy to tell the dirtiest minds—look for the cleanest fingernails."

—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

"What is at stake in the current enthusiasm for participatory art is nothing less than the the social contract itself."

—Claire Bishop Artificial Hells

"The world is an illusion, and living is dreaming, I muttered. Yet blood runs and tears gush forth."

—Han Kang Greek Lessons

"Reality is like a stoned pimp on a night of thunderstorms."

—Roberto Bolaño 2666

"And they’ve dragged me into this fucking schizo-culture, snarling and spitting and walking around on curled knuckles."

—David Wojnarowicz The Waterfront Journals

"Hardly anyone judges when a girl goes her own way. Believe me, boy, heavy lies the head that wears the Birkin."

—Kitschkrieg feat. Blumengarten & Shirin David Gut Genug

"Stones. Even my eyes. Stones, even the damp air. Stones, my cry; rocks, my mouth."

—Badr Shakir as-Sayyab Weil ich fremd bin

"Is there any such thing as a brain that hasn’t been brainwashed? If anything, it’s easier to go insane in the way best suited for your world."

—Sayaka Murata Vanishing World

"It comes as a relief when our romantic relationships reconfigure around regressive ideas about gender."

—Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth

"Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it."

—Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse

"I stayed quiet and took my time over a cigarette, watching him coming and going, this way and that, knowing he was wasting his time, that he would come back, tired and thirsty, not having found the gates of heaven, among all that smoke and all those people."

—Julio Cortàzar Las puertas del cielo