I was buying time. One is always buying something. - Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories. Or else we'll become entities. Maybe it's the same.

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.