Leslie

“And seriously, anybody working in a job that doesn’t let you take a nap when you need to should get a new job.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer