Jerome Erbach

“devastating consequences of not being seen, of disappearing in a family that never expressed any curiosity about who I really was, but determined my identity based on their own projections, fears, and needs. Curiosity is a form of generosity. Implicit in it is the recognition of another, requiring the puncturing of the vain inglorious shell of self-importance.”
― V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology

“Most of those gentlemen are fertilizing daffodils now!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“He straightened and peered down at her, and Winnie, looking back into his face, saw an expression there that made her feel like an unexpected present, wrapped in pretty paper and tied with ribbons[.]”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.’ That’s Mama, she’s a okay girl.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil