Jay Cagle

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“I let him charm me more, I let him let me think I was special—I knew at my core that he was waiting to unzip his face. I’m blindsided by how abruptly it all happened, how fast he left his phone off the hook.”
― Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

“We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

“She barely notices when I say that I am going on to Toronto to visit my grandparents. Except to remark that they must be really old. Not a word about Alister. Not even a bad word. She would not have forgotten. Just tidied up the scene and put it away in a closet with her former selves. Or maybe she really is a person who can deal recklessly with humiliation.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life