Dustin

“You spend a long time waiting for life to start-- her past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant-- and then it does start and you realize it isn't what you'd expected, or asked for.”
― Megan Abbott, The Fever

“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“In the shattered schoolhouse where for the first time he had felt the security of power, a few feet from the room where he had come to know the uncertainty of love, Arcadio found the formality of death ridiculous. Death did not really matter to him but life did, and therefore the the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.”
― Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage