Abby King

“You asked me who I was, and—it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Nothing on the scale of what was planned for the day had ever been attempted, but then, as Albion Ross had written in the New York Times a few days before, no Olympics before had ever been orchestrated 'by a political regime that owes its triumph to a new realization of the possibilities of propaganda, publicity, and pageantry.”
― Daniel James Brown

“Somehow, even shrouded and entombed in the storage locker, it had worked itself free and into some fraudulent public narrative, a radiance that glowed in the mind of the world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“But we never learn what it goes to show, because he never got to finish the letter.
He never got to finish a lot of things.
We want to say he died like a hero. We want to say he was brave until the end. And maybe he was. Maybe he was.
But he was also just a kid. He was a scared kid who died far from home, in a country that wasn't his, a country that took his blood and his weight and is tears and didn't give him back to us.”
― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free