Justin Morlock

“Regardless of who we really were to each other, I guess you're still the person I'm sending this box to.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Of course, the dream outran the reality, as it always does.”
― Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

“The barbershop was strangely quiet. Only the dull buzz of clippers shearing soft scalps. That was before the barber caught you watching her reflection in the mirror as he cut her hair, and saw something in her eyes too. He paused and turned towards you, his dreads like thick beautiful roots dancing with excitement as he spoke:
'You two are in something. I don't know what it is, but you guys are in something. Some people call it a relationship, some call it a friendship, some call it love, but you two, you two are in something.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Make a wish,' I say. And I wonder what goes through his mind, knowing that whatever he wished for will never come true. Maybe he knows this, too.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark