georgia

“my seven-shaped crooked tail should be able to snag every single marvelous thing we pass.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“Yes, the wildness was in me, yes it kept my heart beating fast all the long day, yes it danced around me while I walked down the street, yes it let me look boys straight in the face when they stared at me, yes it turned my laugh from a cough into a long wild fever, but I was still scared. How could I not be? I was my mother's daughter. Her hold on me stronger than love.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“a terrible beauty is etc., etc. take it from me. you laugh because you've been ransacked to the limit of your soul, because your lover betrayed you almost unto death, because your first son was neverborn. you laugh because you have no front teeth and you've sworn to never smile again.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao