Kathie Yang

“And how the dog is the only thing in the painting that isn't slightly laughable or trapped within a matrix of vanities. The only thing in the painting that could be called vaguely free.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“When you followed the car that morning at Penge and I saw you there in the rain, I could have knelt in the mud at your feet, I could have cut out my heart and begged you, Here, take it. It's already yours, it's no good to me without you—”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Ain't it over? They said it was fuckin' over! At the very moment when Alec's tears were salting Swavely's blood, people were cheering, dancing, drinking in Piccadilly, Times Square, on the Champs-Élysées. He hated them. There were only two kinds now, those who had fought and those who had not, and he hated those who had not.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Why do you keep coming?" she asked.
"Because," he said. Click on this word, he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed. "Because," he repeated.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow