As a half-Portuguese, half-Lebanese, feminist, novelist, hipster, atheist, charlatan, blogger, backpacker, playwright, bookworm, film critic, bon vivant and lovertine, I began my journey of petulance and precociousness in the suburbs of Montreal and Toronto. I thusly figured I'd turn out to be a nun, or a writer. A few years at a Catholic school cured me of the first disease.

I cannot wear white without spilling something on it, but you'll still find me, most likely, in the fridge at 4am.

I mean well.

Want to know more about me? You can find my bio, writing portfolio, and media coverage at ChristineEstima.com

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly

"She lives the poetry that she cannot write." -Oscar Wilde

"The sole pleasure in love lies in the knowledge that one is doing evil." -Baudelaire

”There is, in the act of love, a great resemblance to torture or to a surgical operation.” - Baudelaire

"My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned." -39th Psalm of David

"L'amour, c'est l'infini mis à la portée des caniches."
-Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“ What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ” - Lacan