Abigail

“How many summers had I been alive? The obvious answer was as many summers as my age; but I felt the presence of another number, a different, more real number somewhere out there in the world.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it's incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it's heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“I looked at you hard, the way I had learned, by then, to look into the eyes of my bullies.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It takes courage to say what has to be said.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold