Tara

“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“I wanted my life to be shaken up, to go from being who I was to someone renewed.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People