Emmy

“I'd spent the preceding twenty days swirling in a paralyzing vortex of loud sounds and bad smells, overwhelming stimuli, and confusing social norms, and I'd had just about all I could take.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“There is not a lot you can see when there are tears in your eyes.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“I could no longer discern what was real and what was fake. Everything, including the present, seemed to be both too much and nothing at all.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Sometimes what you think you want isn’t what you actually want. Sometimes the thing that makes you really happy is the thing you least expect.”
― Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty