Bridget Farrell

“How it could make Diana happy to be around me was mysterious to me, since I was always around me and I was never happy. We always forget the Heisenberg effect of our own presence—that we only ever get to see what other people are like when we're around. I'd been drawn to her hoping I might absorb some of her radiance, not realizing it was, in part, my own reflected light. 197”
― Tim Kreider, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

“Young people don’t say the new normal anymore; to them it’s just normal. But I guess no one finds themselves in the same country they were born in at the ends of their lives. We all die in exile.”
― Tim Kreider, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

“We're all Americans tonight.”
― Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

“There was no hatred. No anger. No fear in Gander. Only the spirit of community. Here, everyone was equal, everyone was treated the same. Here, the basic humanity of man wasn’t just surviving but thriving”
― Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland