Adan

“We’re our own hardest critics and it’s easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. Cutting corners. More than once I’ve looked back on my high school self and thought: how did I do that? How did I work so hard? Our private insecurities follow us and will always follow us.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. At the edge of perception, weird things dance and howl.”
― M.H. Boroson, The Girl with Ghost Eyes

“Face. I should have known. For some men, face mattered more than friendship, more than money, more than love. More than an eye, and certainly more than a daughter. The”
― M.H. Boroson, The Girl with Ghost Eyes