Ally

“As long as the sheets of paper covered in my handwriting lie on this table, I can become a reality in someone's mind.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“We won’t grow old together, Cyrus. But can’t you feel this mattering? Right now?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Even at my small age, I understood that there were limits to love, and I felt sure that one day people would run out of love for me.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men