Gregg Rosenthal

“First, there are the people with no particular agenda, who will take their cue from you, who will wait quietly to learn who you are. Then there is the other group, the people who will not wait, but who conjure up a personality for you out of odds and ends of their own: some bits of you, certainly, but mixed liberally with scraps of their own needs and prejudices.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

“They all spent their lives in plant-filled apartments and cafes with excellent wifi. In the long run it was inevitable they would convince themselves that nothing else existed.”
― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

“This is why parents want grandchildren. Really they want their own children back again, they long to feel that vanished and complete love.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven

“I was old enough to know I’d be wrong about many things of which I’d once been certain, but still young enough to see possibility and perfection in new certainties.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X