Aisling Fahey

'We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.'

-- Aristotle

'I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling.
Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.'

-- Anais Nin

'I want to write different words for you
To invent a language for you alone
to fit the size of your body
And the size of my love 

I want to travel away from the dictionary
And to leave my lips
I am tired of my mouth
I want a different one
Which can change
Into a cherry tree or a match box
A mouth from which words can emerge
Like nymphs from the sea,
Like white chicks jumping from the magician’s hat.'

-- Nizar Qabbani
Trans. Bassam K Frangieh and Clementine R. Brown

'you think I’m not a goddess? 
try me.'

-- Margaret Atwood