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

“It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece.
Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.”
― 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

“I realise that you were not born with a predetermined capacity for wonder, as I’d believed. I realise that you fed it up yourself from tiny pieces of the world. I realise it’s up to me to follow your example and nurture my own wonder, morsel by morsel by morsel.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither