Farida Z

“you aren’t really an adult until you bury a parent or become one yourself. But what no one ever mentions is that for kids of a certain age, divorce is like both of those happening simultaneously”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“he puts his hand back down as fast as it went up and gets out his phone like everyone does now when they want to leave without leaving.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“And so the geek inherited the earth.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record