Tom

“She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days. Over and over, I kept thinking I’ve got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can’t.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists.”
― Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

“At that age there’s music playing in your head all the time, as if a radio were transmitting from the nape of your neck, inside your skull. Then one day that music starts to grow softer, or it just stops. When that happens, you’re no longer a teenager”
― Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed