Hector

“When you send away someone you love, you fantasize about the front door. You sense their familiar shoulders fill its frame when your back is turned; every creak of the screen sticks in your throat. You lie in bed not wondering if you locked up the house but willing someone you're not sure you'll recognize to enter it.”
― Jessica Pearce Rotondi, What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers

“When he was a young man the mysteries of the world seemed like generosity--you can think anything you want! Now the universe withheld things. It was like luck. Luck once meant anything could happen. Now it meant he was doomed. But maybe it didn't need to.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

“In had walked an old fellow, pale as if he'd been partially erased.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse

“What lengths will people stretch to believe they’re still good?”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling