Kari Yergin

“The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don’t know what they’re doing any better than kids do. That’s the truth.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“They’d both learned that a memory is a fact that’s been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again