Maddie

“Why, hello there, I say. I’m Bela. And my parents have been arguing all day. Who are you? The red butterfly flaps its wings and I think he can see me. I think he’s looking back at me. I came all the way from my habitat to see you, I say. And my parents use the zoo to fight.”
― Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House

“The older I get, the more I think the barometer for intelligence is how kind you are. Because it’s not an easy thing to do, staying mindful, after all you go through in life.”
― Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House

“This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.”
― Jim Sinclair

“Because he has done the good thing, the right thing, and only then become the victim of its vanishing, this virtuous man may now turn with the full support of any onlooker to violence, rage, nihilism, and debauchery.”
― CJ Leede