Shoshanah

“Down on the street the protesters are shouting at each other, and at Lucas, but most of all they’re probably shouting just to shout. Just to be heard. Lucas stands quietly for a very, very long time, thinking about how awful it must feel: to be a person who so desperately wants something to happen. Lucas never wants anything to go on at all.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“How the generation who worked and fought for our ability to live how we wanted to would be shocked to see not a painter, or a poet, or a concert violinist, or even a philosophy professor among us.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“the way a shiva’s job is to fill the crevices of grief with love.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out?”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War