...you look at me like an emergency
Strangers are an endangered species.
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.