“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.”

“. . . everywhere a good and a bad book”

“Good and bad exist always, everywhere”

“Cicely glances over at him. She looks a good kind of nervous when she should look a bad kind of scared.”

“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.”