Sarah

“Sometimes when he's drinking, he gets all weepy and he'll ask me to come closer to him and he'll ask me to hug him and it feels strange to hold him close to me but it feels good too, with his face hair rubbing like sandpaper against my softer cheeks and it's strange and sad the feeling of sorrow I feel because I know he might not have actually been physically touched, except by accident, by another human for about fifteen years.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know