Emily McElroy

“The true mystery of Okawa school was the one we all face. No mind can encompass it; consciousness recoils in panic. The idea of conspiracy is what we supply to make sense of what will never be sensible— the fiery fact of death. Extinction of life: extinction of a perfect, a beloved child: for eternity. Impossible! the soul cries out. What are they hiding?”
― Richard Lloyd Parry, Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

“Making a dessert is nothing less than crafting a smile.”
― B. Dylan Hollis, Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip

“The Hubble telescope swoops the other way. Halley’s Comet shoots back behind the trees as the Humvees roll, again, into Iraq.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace