Nathan Lawrence

“...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Coming out for gay people is a process, not a one-time event. Some days you feel free, open, and ready to piss on the world if they care what you do in bed. On other days, even if you’ve been out to yourself and others, you’re ready to hide in the darkest closet—because sometimes it is safer, easier, and more secure to hide.”
― Mark Richard Zubro, Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?

“I put down my copy of Rebecca.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“There was so much to contest in this that she felt something like panic in the face of it, a buzzing sensation rising in her head.”
― Scott Smith, The Ruins