Irina

“WHERE DOES FIRE GO when it goes out?” Anna asked. Stephen shook his head. The answer he gave was remote. “Nowhere, Anna. It just goes away. We’ve been over this before.” They had. And Anna still didn’t like the answer. Why does the fire ever have to go away? She refused to concede the point. Not when he said it and not—nearly two years later—when she remembered him having said it.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

“I'm thinking the reason I've been so quiet all those years is only because Brian wasn't around yet for me to tell everything to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun