Connie

“I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved. But what would happen if one took off the mask and the other saw one not with love but with horror, disgust, anger? What if the self that one exposes is as unpleasing to others as the mask, or even worse?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Armstrong: I like documentation. I don't think a program is finished until you've written some reasonable documentation. And I quite like a specification. I think it's unprofessional these people who say, "What does it do? Read the code." The code shows me what it does. It doesn't show me what it's supposed to do. I think the code is the answer to a problem.”
― Seibel Peter

“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“...while, in vicious arguments that ended with both of them crying, and of the two, it was he who cried the most— he sobbed with rage, with resentment, with shame, and then his face would harden as though the tears had settled like sediment onto his skin; it’s a commonplace analogy really, but after crying, his skin looked denser and darker.”
― Alejandro Zambra, My Documents