Andrew

“You can be anything you want to be.” “As long as it is a farmer or a shopkeeper,” Emily said.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“How to explain to Destiny that the thing that made her work leap forward in 1996 was that she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“He had spent hours sitting next to her, playing games and then making them, staring at her hands as her fingers flew across a keyboard or jabbed at a controller. Tell me I don’t know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don’t know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory. “Sam?” she said. He passed her the joint.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“As hard as he tried, he could not erase the memory of the woman with the shining black hair, sparkling eyes, easy laugh, and magic marbles; he could not forget the friend who thrust his finger out and held it in the dark like a beacon, all night till the sun came up. The memory of that finger, that one solitary white finger, reaching out in friendship and solidarity, shone in his memory like a bright, shining star.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store