Lori

“Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Ya=hey," he called out to the movement of air, the unseen. A summer before, Uncle Moses listened to his nephew John-John talking a story. John-John was back from college and told Moses that 99 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to the human eye. Ever since, Moses made sure to greet what he could not see.”
― Sherman Alexie

“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“See the bird walk, the information board, the noble fir in all its hollow frippery. See the takeaway, the chip shop. The pub, the other pub. The grocer’s and the hairdressing salon, all shut. See the community we were insidiously hounded from. See how community is only a good thing when you’re a part of it.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither