Sam Wachman

“Someday, I will miss this place. Someday I will miss the special way the light strikes the earth here. But I don’t know it yet. I don’t think that young birds anticipate how badly they will miss the sky when they grow too old and frail to fly. I think they just keep flying until one day they wake up in their nests and they can’t lift their wings.”
― Sam Wachman, The Sunflower Boys: An Award-Winning Coming-of-Age Story of Queer Love and Survival in Ukraine

“The man turned on his phone with trembling hands and showed us his lock screen background. There was a photo of three men in helmets and bulletproof vests. They wore the Ukrainian flag and trident on their sleeves. They carried machine guns on their backs. They stood in a field somewhere”
― Sam Wachman, The Sunflower Boys: An Award-Winning Coming-of-Age Story of Queer Love and Survival in Ukraine