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“When times are normal, it takes ten minutes to walk from our house to the store. At raspberry time, which is July, it takes two hours; you stop that often to moominee — that is, to pick them and eat them right from the stem (another verb exists for picking them to consume later: moysoo).”
― Tomson Highway, Permanent Astonishment

“How beautiful is beauty? You can find her lips with your eyes closed.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“There is something about where I am in my life and how the world feels to me that I need to know where I'm going when I enter a book. I don't even watch TV anymore, other than certain episodes of Columbo. My heart can't take it. Everything is too devastating. I can't even watch sports in real time.”
― Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel