Danny

“For every man exists in the world the way a body exists in water: the moment you leave, the space you occupied will close over. What is left is not even the shape of your body, but the memory of it. There is no such thing as return. We leave one place. We arrive at another. But the person who arrives is never the person who left. We grow. We change.”
― Kei Miller, The Same Earth

“I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it, but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“And I realise I am afraid of earth, the way it holds us, making useless things out of wings.”
― Kei Miller, There Is an Anger that Moves

“I used to think he was my hero. Wow, and I thought Mom was the villian. It's crazy how they switched places. I follow behind her, thinking of all the times Daddy bulldozed over Mom, and how many times I rooted for him. I was on his side, because he was always on my side, but I guess I didn't realise how maybe I shouldn't cheer for my daddy to silence my mom—despite the fact that I didn't usually like what she was saying.”
― Joya Goffney, Confessions of an Alleged Good Gir