Eric Mikhail

“He imagined her impressed by his maturity, by his willingness to share her with another man. But this formulation was partial. It did not take into account the fact that she’d loved him, or that he’d broken her heart. It did not consider that her heart might be broken still, or that every time they slept together, it broke a little more.”
― Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles

“There are, he determines, infinite ways his mother doesn’t die that night and only one way she does.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold.”
― Young-Ha Kim, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges, while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present