Barbara

“His parents would sometimes stretch out the spaces between events, forcing him to be ever vigilant, to control himself even in moments of peace.”
― Kevin Wilson

“My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“I feel like such an idiot. That I ever thought I could have a really good life.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“I think of my mom and Nina... how their dream was acting and it never came true. I wonder what one day my failed dream might be. I wonder what it's like being in a talent show, your mom in the audience clapping for you.”
― Holly Wilson