Shannon Burdett

“Why does even the best person hold back something from another? Why not say directly what we feel if we know that what we entrust won’t be scattered to the winds? As it is, everyone looks much tougher than he really is, as if he felt it’d be an insult to his feeling if he expressed them too readily.”
― Fydor Dostoyevsky

“i liked isora's insides even though i couldn't see them”
― Andrea Abreu, Dogs of Summer: A Novel

“I dreamed of healing Isora's sadness, I wanted to be her dog and I wanted her to be my saint with scraped knees.”
― Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

“The women I dated were often my age, that was fine. But the men always had to be older than me because if they were my same age then it became too obvious how much more powerful I was and this was a turnoff for both of us. Men needed a head start for it to be even.”
― Miranda July, All Fours