Sarah Merrill

“Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y'all one and it beats like your heart.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“I realized that if I was going to assume the responsibility of writing about my home, I needed narrative ruthlessness. I couldn't dull the edges and fall in love with my characters and spare them. Life does not spare us.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“I do love this physical world. I love this physical life with you. And the air and the country. The backyard, the gravel in the back alley. The grass. The cool nights. Lying in bed talking with you in the dark.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night