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

“But no matter how you die, the world always stays the same.”
― Young-Ha Kim, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

“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

“Our country only exists because people believed in it, and if it wasn’t strong enough to protect us from this crisis, then what future could it ever hope to have? He knew that America wanted a Caesar, but to be one would mean the end of America. They say great times make great men. I don’t buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn’t or wouldn’t. Greed, fear, stupidity, and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War