Caroline Cox

“The “boys”? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. Boys? It seemed that youth had never happened to them.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What’s real is gravity and a dirty apartment and a daughter zipping her duffel bag.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Never is so easy for a young person to say. I think about my father’s ashes, sunk in the Trinity. And Barton’s suit-clad body underground. How Ryan and I both swore off alcohol before we met, carrying our father’s stories into our no-thank-yous and just-water-pleases.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Theo pressed the delete key and watched the letters march backward to oblivion. All that was left was the blinking cursor, tapping like an impatient finger.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Horse