Mackenzie Ichimura

“what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i’ve ever had
in human form”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“One of them says, “Why did they do it, Nina and Darrell?” And the other answers, “Because they could.” That is the only answer there ever is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“But once he has his hand on the doorknob, I realize that I have put into motion the end of a lackluster life in the interest of eventually finding a great one.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Your life has been made up of chambers, a series of chambers, so the interlocutor said, his hand on my arm — and in each chamber it is difficult to remember exactly what it was like to be in the previous room. You can remember that certain things happened when you were a child. But, what it was like to be there, to be a child, it really is lost to you. Our world is a difficult succession of losses, vaguely remembered, vaguely enshrined.”
― Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide