Thomas

“I was a virgin. When he took me, I popped.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“I watched him walking away, sweater over his shoulders, bag in hand, until he was no more than a tiny point in the distance. I watched, without so much as blinking, and I realized how utterly lonely I was. But all my staring couldn’t prevent that distant point from vanishing like a snowflake dissolving in the sunlight.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

“Around us, minutes inch over the dirt like ants, tumble into the swollen stream, are carried away.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“In the beginning, I know I want him before he does. This isn’t how things are done, but this is how I am going to do them.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties