Ella O
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Ella O
Like gardening, sewing is an investment in the future—in what sort of person your future self will be, and how she will feel about her body, and what she will want to wear.
Maddie Ballard • Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
Though I was still up front as the singer, there wasn’t the visible hierarchy of players that one often sees in large bands. Everyone was both musically and visually part of the whole. The band became a more abstract entity, a community. And while individual band members might shine and take virtuosic turns, their identities became submerged within
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What an unbelievable scam it is to get everything you’ve been told to want.
Ling Ling Huang • Immaculate Conception: A Novel
Your face is nearest to me of anyone’s in the world, and every day I’m overwhelmed by your beauty: your pianist’s hands, your patience, the deep safe scent of you.
Maddie Ballard • Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
Between sewing, writing, and cooking, my life is full of making. In every act, I savour.
Maddie Ballard • Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn’t. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it’s hollow. Look under the shells: it’s not there. xx
Naomi Alderman • The Power
Saint Anthony was said to suffer from a crippling despair. When he prayed to be freed from it, he was told that any physical task done in the proper spirit would bring him deliverance.
Jenny Offill • Dept. of Speculation
He considered style to be the “inevitable by-product” of the writer feeling their way through the shape of their creation, through word choices and small decisions as well as big ones. I didn’t like the term “by-product” because it didn’t sound central enough — style mattered to me even then — and he said that he meant it in the way the appearance... See more
