Hannah

“I promise you that my father had never even looked at a garden. Flowers registered to him as very small bitches, far off in the distance.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

“You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours.”
― Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

“Kathy was becoming obsessed with the numbness, the way the news cycle was making her incapable of action, a beach somnolent whale. No one could put anything together, that was the whole problem. She had recently read an article that listed all the reasons why monarch butterflies were dying, before segueing proudly into an account of taking a plane across America so the writer could cheer herself up by seeing monarch butterflies. On the plane she complained about the air pollution of jet fuel and perfume, how it gave her allergies, but she didn't connect the casual habit of flying thousands of miles with the collapse of the butterflies. Kathy didn't blame her. The equations were too difficult, you knew intellectually, but you never really saw the consequences, since they tended to impact other poorer people in other poorer places. There is no away to throw things to didn't quite work as an axiom if you were a species that depended so stubbornly on the evidence of its own eyes.”
― Olivia Laing, Crudo

“She never wanted to say another bad word, though she did twice most days, especially when hungry or tired. Could you learn to be peaceful?”
― Olivia Laing, Crudo