Ali Skiera

“You know what I believe?” Monae said, and he wasn’t sure he did. “I think you decide on someone and somewhere and that devotion is the sense it all makes. You choose someone and you try your best for them. I’ll take it if there’s more, but that’s enough for me. That’s the way I love you. That’s the way I love this place.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“Of course I don't want to be a consultant," she said the night before, clutching a borrowed copy of Marc Conentino's Case in point (the aspiring-consultant bible). It's just very scary to watch as many of your friends have already secured six-figure salaries and are going to be living in luxury next year. I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We have practiced for death every night. Lying down in the dark and slipping into that place of nothingness between rest and dreams where we have no consciousness, no self, and anything could befall our vulnerable bodies. We have died each night. Or at least, we have laid down to die, and let go of everything in this world, hoping for dreams and morning.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“What happened... was so sad that nobody knew what to say. Nobody even knew how to talk about it, and it turned into a secret. But I'm glad its not a secret now. I want everything to be right out loud.”
― Eliza Nellums, All That's Bright and Gone