Sea Graham

“I wasn’t old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he’d never have to love her again.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“They’re to be seen, not owned, like every beautiful thing in this world, including you.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Beautiful Exiles

“He flipped through the biggest book imaginable, the dictionary, a book that contained and explained every word in the language, he said. The print was so small it looked like print for a mouse to read.”
― Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians

“I think marriage is nearly always an unfathomable entity, even to the people inside it. It took this… all of this mess… to make me realize I can’t go on. I don’t really know when I stopped loving him,”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White