Michael

“Fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how. Let's get this over with or you'll be here all night. Bestir yourself. Move your flesh around, breathe audibly. It's the least you can do.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

“It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell not going to undergo some total transformation at this point.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers