Madeline

“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

“I wasn’t able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we’d done the buttons up wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami

“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

“Something else to be grateful for: the gentle protection of uneventfulness.”
― Benjamin Markovits, Fathers and Daughters: A Novel