- "Inside the peach, there is a stone." - Margaret Atwood
- "A young man in a strange land falls in love with a young woman and takes her to wife in her mother’s tent. By day the women chew skins and boil meat while the young man hunts. But the old crone is jealous; she wants the boy. Calling her daughter to her one day, she offers to braid her hair; the girl sits pleased, proud, and soon strangled by her own hair. One thing Eskimos know is skinning. The mother takes her curved hand knife shaped like a dancing skirt, skins her daughter’s beautiful face, and presses that empty flap smooth on her own skull. When the boy returns that night he lies with her, in the tent on top of the world. But he is wet from hunting; the skin mask shrinks and slides, uncovering the shriveled face of the old mother, and the boy flees in horror, forever" Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- "“Fashion is an extension of dressing. It’s a very important social factor. It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is evil. There’s a lack of understanding, a moral dismissal, and an anger that fashion, and by extension fashion photography, is a wasteful, criminal thing. I quite like that agitation and aggression, because I don’t believe it. In a society where your first encounter with people tends to be visual, you’re sort of saying “This is who I am.” I can’t imagine a society that doesn’t adorn and decorate itself and doesn’t use its outer appearance in some way as a social communication.” - Nick Knight
- "It was the weird area where you’re definitely not cool but you’re in this other category — you go to punk shows but you study and do your homework; you don’t go all the way, you don’t smash your mom’s favorite things. It’s the weird dichotomy of wearing khakis at a punk show and drawing anarchy symbols on your desk." - Kip Berman on being 17 years old
- "I don’t have any problem with what people refer to as sexy clothes. I mean, everybody likes sex. The world would be a better place if people just engaged in sex and didn’t worry about it. But what I prefer is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they don’t look it. Curiosity about sex is much more interesting to me than domination. Like, Britney and Paris and Pamela might be someone’s definition of sexy, but they’re not mine. My clothes are not hot. Never. Never." - Marc Jacobs
- "I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are." — Holden Caufield in The Catcher In The Rye
- "What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!" Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, "Never have I heard anything more divine"? Friedrich Nietzsche
- "our souls crucified at midnight, our bodies crushed in a labyrinth of pain" - ultra gash inferno by Suehiro Maruo
- "Look, all I'm saying is if you still wanna smoke pot then be prepared to spend a lot of time laughing with your friends." - Mr. Jellineck on Strangers With Candy
- "It doesn't matter when you get here - just what time." - Mr.Jellineck on Strangers With Candy
- "You couldn't make me "alright" if you stapled your tongue to my clit and stood in a cement mixer." - Lily Loveless in skins
- “The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.” - David Lynch
- "Isn’t the moon warm enough for you, why do you need the blanket of another body" - the shadow voice by Margaret Atwood
- "And when the universe has finished exploding, all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall toward the center of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us from seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving toward us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling." - The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- "According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half." - Haruki Murakami
- "i like romantic allusions to the past: what the babysitter wore, what the art teacher wore, what i wore during my experimental days in fashion when i was going to the mudd club and wanted to be a new wave kid or a punk kid but was really a poseur. it’s the awkwardness of posing and feeling like i was in, but i never was in. awkwardness gives me great comfort. i’ve never been cool, but i’ve felt cool. i’ve been in the cool place, but i wasn’t really cool—i was trying to pass for hip or cool. it’s the awkwardness that’s nice." - Marc Jacobs
- "J'accuse Jacques Brel. J'accuse Jacques Cousteau. J'accuse Jacques Strap. J'accuse Jacuzzi." - William Douglas Street in Chameleon Street
- "I’ve always planned to be a failure anyway, that’s why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman" - Nick Smith in Metropolitan
- “The cha cha is no more ridiculous than life itself." - Nick Smith in Metropolitan
- "strive for art in reverse." - John Waters
- "I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time." - Max from Kicking and Screaming (1995)
- "i guess there are just two kinds of people. my kind of people, and assholes" - Connie Marble
- "I mean, true, girls love a cute purse. It’s because a purse is a metaphor for a vagina—it’s small and velvety and pretty and you want to put things in it again and again and again." - Lesley Arfin
- "Unicorns are fake creatures for fake girls with fake dreams. They are also dazzling and only virgins can see them. Also people who wear unicorn shirts are being fake funny or fay or gay. You can bring unicorns to life with your very own Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper. Then everyone will like you and you’ll never get old." - Lesley Arfin
- "I was in a band in 8th grade called Tabitha 101 with my best friend Susannah. We did a cover of “Hamster Baby” by Bikini Kill and “Molly’s Lips” by the Vaselines - via Nirvana of course. But I had just learned to play guitar and I knew about 5 chords, and I wrote some originals too. We played at this coffeehouse around the corner from our school. I sort of romanticize that time period. We listened to Frumpies 7”s, a lot of Bratmobile, and it was this very intense romantic friendship. We recorded a cassette single on a pink boombox with 3 songs on it, and I sold them to our classmates for $2." - Peggy Wang
- "She dreams, as she has often dreamt, of abandonment and betrayal, of lost hope, of the self gone astray from the body, the body forsaking the unlikely self. She feels like a once-proud castle whose walls have collapsed, her halls and towers invaded, not by marauding armies, but by humbler creatures, bats, birds, cats, cattle, her departed self an unkempt army marauding elsewhere in a scatter of confused intentions. Her longing for integrity is, in her spellbound innocence, all she knows of rage and lust, but this longing is itself fragmented and wayward, felt not so much as a monstrous gnawing at the core as more like restless scurry of vermin in the rubble of her remote defeses, long since fallen and benumbed. What, if anything, can make her whole again? And what is "whole"? Her parents, as always in her dreams, have vanished, gone off to death or the continent or perhaps to one of their houses of pleasure, and she is stabbed again and again by the treacherous spindle, impregnated with a despair from which, for all her fury, she cannot awaken." - Briar Rose by Robert Coover
- "If she did experience sex—or something close to it—in high school, I’m sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity." — Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Hurakami
- "She is standing on my eyelids, And her hair is in my hair, She has the color of my eye, She has the body of my hand, In my shade she is engulfed, As a stone against the sky" Paul Eluard excerpt from "Lady Love"
- "The river I have under my tongue, Unimaginable water, my little boat, And curtains lowered, let's speak." Paul Eluard's The River
- "I don't just go into the studio and say, "Oh Mom, Colleen, my heart is broken and my vagina hurts soooo much" - Nadine from Tiny Furniture
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