Laura

“The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Trust me,” I say. “I’ve seen things that make your porn look like Dora the Explorer.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“He still loved her, loved her more for her wrinkles because they could not defeat his need for her. Or his love. His young lust had turned to love and then his love had aged back into lust. It was a circle. It was a miracle. It was the alchemy of flesh. They ate only what they caught from the sea - wahoo, barracuda, and mahi mahi, and they ate what they picked from the trees - papaya, banana, and coconut. Don't forget cerveza from the bodega. They did not run, they walked. They needed nothing but themselves. This was them: They were.”
― David Duchovny, Bucky F*cking Dent

“He was to speak of her less often in the years to come... It made Angeline more resentful of the one who stayed away.”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist