Peter Lopez Stiedl

“That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Nothing made a boy less exciting than the fact that you were supposed to like him.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

“Eventually remembering turned into imagining. How slight the difference was between the two.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half