Juliana

“Anyone who speaks to members of his family knows that sharing a language does not mean you share the rules governing the use of that language.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“Mr. Kline, surely you’re enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days