Lillian McCulloch

“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it’s a loving thing to do. You speak someone else’s words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Here is something I would like to tell you—stories get better as they get more true.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“...the call of life is as powerful as the call of death, and it is no weakness to answer to it,” she said quietly.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

“I don't know how my mom was so unstoppable despite all that stuff happening. I dunno. Maybe it's anticipation. Hope. The anticipation that the God who listens in love will one day speak justice. The hope that some final fantasy will come to pass that will make everything sad untrue.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue