Mandy Stratton

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“Everybody should have someone whose belief in them in unwavering, unconditional, always.”
― Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel

“To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers