Blair

“She understood it was an opportunity, one of those rare moments when you get a chance to do something bold and risky. When you’re young, these moments happen all the time – weekly, daily – and you assume they’re part of life; but over time they become intermittent, and eventually they peter out altogether. Then you see them happening to your children.”
― Harriet Lane, Other People's Fun

“I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“There are truths I haven’t even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories

“Where were my allies? My sad captains? Those moonsick girls I drank with over long winters behind the bowling alley, driven there in cars we didn't know. Those times when we were all strangers and everything was so far away but all we needed to do was run towards it. I had not grown much. I had not reached anywhere. I was still running. When I wasn't lying down.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals