Jenna Johnson

“I could hop into an ER carrying my severed leg and squirting blood from the stump and the doctor would congratulate me on having dropped all that leg weight and tell me to keep up the good work.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

“It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“The problem with family is that they know where all the levers are that make you move. They're usually the ones who installed the levers in the first place.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars