Mitch Stiles

“We were just putting words to our thoughts to see if they had wings.”
― Johanna Hedman, The Trio

“I found it increasingly difficult to shake the suspicion that work was all about pretending to care about pointless stuff, and that success hinged on your ability to trick even yourself.”
― Johanna Hedman, The Trio

“It feels like I have to enact violence upon myself to love him in a way he's comfortable with. And I can't. I care too much about myself to do that.”
― Johanna Hedman, The Trio

“Handing August one of the cups, she decides that nothing bad can happen to him. This resolution feels like grabbing hold of a shaking object in order to make it stop. She can feel it resisting between her palms, feel the reverberations, but she doesn't loosen her hold. Finally it quivers, almost as if despondent, and when it stops it goes cold too, like she's strangled it.”
― Johanna Hedman, The Trio