Herbie

“Wallace couldn't remember the last time he had lain with someone this way, in that nearly innocent configuration that comes before sex when both parties pretend to want everything other than that, letting their bodies wind up to the point of unbearable tension. He reached for Miller first, his hand against Miller's chest to feel the rhythm of his heart, its fast, hard beat.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“The stars in the night sky are a long way from the surface of the earth, so even the nearest seem to move little, if at all. They appear to be fixed against the firmament from day to day and year to year, permitting us to think them into shapes and symbols. But astronomers know that every star is in motion, that each moves along its own trajectory, according to its own properties. The constellations we see are temporary creations, our effort to draw order and meaning from a mostly unknowable universe, to tell ourselves stories, to guide our way home across oceans.”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

“How can you tell where you're going when you're always looking up at the past?”
― Steven Rowley, The Guncle

“Diamond's writing is often impassioned, and I liked it. I felt set on fire by it, elated by not only the affirmation of her feelings but by their specificity.”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars