Sandy

“Everything she touched seemed to bounce away from her with stronger force.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

“Maybe the dead know, their eyes widening at last,
Seeing the high beams of a million galaxies flick on
At twilight.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

“And if, at any moment, a part of him started to feel better, he would torture himself all the harder because he didn't want to feel better, because that would mean letting go.”
― Marie Phillips, Gods Behaving Badly

“I have seen his face in its many variations. I have seen it when he’s angry, when he’s satisfied, when he tries to project control. I have been on his good side and his bad side. It is a face I have spent a lot of time trying to read, trying to appeal to, trying to capitulate to, trying to pretend for. I have always positioned myself in relation to him, thinking I could toe the line, thinking it would be fine if I just cooperated, thinking if only I compressed myself a bit more.”
― Ling Ma, Severance