Riley

“If someone changes so much that they're barely the same person, who are you even missing?”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Most of us have heard by now that the government is supposedly developing a new variety of the qiguo, superior in flavor, more stable in its effects. They say it will be sweeter, that its trees will bear fruit in all seasons. Especially as the winter sets in, we are impatient to try it.”
― Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers

“In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry for a thousand years.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger