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“I wanted to show her the small acts that grounded me each day: make a pot of coffee, do the dishes, sweep the kitchen floor, water the plants. Moments that are for no one, toward nothing, except the maintenance of a day. Moments not worth being written about, maybe, but that make me feel the most connected to being alive.”
― Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

“She was tired of living her life thinking constantly about how she appeared to others, checking her answers against everyone else’s.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“All my life I’d heard said this thing about tears—that they are a language, that they do indeed speak.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

“— Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster