Abby

“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“There are certain things that remind me of my destiny to raw dog American capitalism, get the same UTI over and over, and keep going back out of shame and lack of prospects. I skew pretty left, but I will wait in line at Space Mountain for an hour and foam at the mouth over the intellectual property of one of the world's vilest conglomerates. Their labor and integration practices are sick, their refusal to produce anything new is obnoxious, and when I see a princess at a theme park who has the same hair color as me, I pass out.”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

“I suppose sometimes in fiction we find the thing we need to raise our spirits, help us escape, and even teach us how to be brave.”
― Noelle Salazar, Angels of the Resistance

“There is no book we can read that will make us feel one hundred percent certain about the choices we make in war. Or in life. No guiding force to enlighten us. All we can do is our job. For the sake of the greater good. You just have to believe in the cause.”
― Noelle Salazar, Angels of the Resistance