Madeline

“These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the gray cement of adulthood.”
― Maya Lang, The Sixteenth of June

“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Every time he says or does something weird, it's that specific thing they react to, not to Herman himself. Herman's self-aware enough to know that the hairbreadth distinction between the two is a coping mechanism.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.”
― Milan Kundera