Rachel

“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“War,' chanted Benton, 'war strangely is happiness to Diane.”
― Racter, The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed: Computer Prose and Poetry

“In those last weeks, we drove without talking, trying to outride the heat, each alone in the dream the city had become. I was afraid to speak, to touch his arm even.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Anh Minh believed that if he could save three minutes here, five minutes there, then one day he could tally them all up and have enough to start life all over again.”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt