Tina

“I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Why make this call and not just say what you wanted?
His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.”
― Margaret Atwood, Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

“It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz