Tom Morton

“Tell him what’s what. Tell him how hard it is”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Polly, she stabbed you with a fork today. She’s not giving you her baby.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“You hear the expression empty nest and imagine the downy expanse of it, the absence of cheeping, maybe the bird pair connecting more intimately, what with nobody barging in at midnight needing either of them to read an email to their history teacher or inspect a weird freckle that turns out to be Magic Marker. But often an empty nest is two birds looking at each other, shell-shocked and nostalgic, over the single worm they’re now splitting for dinner, discussing what to do with the worm leftovers.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“I laugh. I’m incapable of understanding his dilemma. It feels completely made up to me. I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover