Sublime

So much about the way we live in modernity is hostile, even fatal, to the feminine.

she was “a wrinkled old fairy all the same.”

Like so many ambitious girls, I wanted to be big and small at the same time—to live a big life in a small body.

surrealist Italian Elsa Schiaparelli

The flotsam that rides the gyres is called drift.

“We are that fraction of old magic that remains.”

the erotic is one of the locations where tenderness lives.

This emboldens Adina to make the mistake countless writers before her have made. She attempts to write about New York City.