This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief

Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.

Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. - Esme from Sister Mischief

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences