Sandra Del Rio

“So why are you skipping school? Can you tell me that?"
"Nothing ever really happens," I say.
"Meaning?"
"Meaning nothing original or new ever really happens and school is just a place where we all pretend like we're new and original and we're not. We're all the same.”
― A.S. King, Still Life with Tornado

“What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

“I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

“I am as blank as a piece of white paper in a world with no pencils.”
― A.S. King, Still Life with Tornado