Claire

“She hands me dish after dish and I load them into the dishwasher without a word, like she wants, the same way we stow away our secrets in this family, shutting the door on them and locking them away from sight until we come up with a version clean and respectable enough for all to see.”
― Misa Sugiura, It's Not Like It's a Secret

“When we're done, the kitchen is neat and clean and shiny. Meanwhile our secrets whirl around us and obscure us from each other like a cloud of dust.”
― Misa Sugiura, It's Not Like It's a Secret

“It’s not logical for a bird to be that big,” I bite out. Really, it’s not. Tweety Bird? The love of my life. Big Bird? I don’t trust that ho. Plus, have they seen his nest? He probably hides bodies in it.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up