Sarah

“it is the moral responsibility of the incompetent to identify their own weaknesses and not accept positions of power.”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“She is finally rid of your absence. Maybe she'll start being normal. A woman with a mother who is dead and buried.”
― Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

“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

“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