Cindy

“If we're jumping into families and religion," Jack said, "then my parents are at that really fun stage of Southern Baptism where they've ceased being human beings and have transformed into walking, talking bibles.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“Anger doesn't really cover what I feel, though. You get angry because someone almost runs you over in the bike lane. Angry because someone cuts in line at Walmart.
What's the word for when someone drinks so much, they are ruining your best friend's life? Or the word for a man so vengeful about his own past that he wants to destroy your future? What's the word for a woman who was sick for months, but refused to go to the doctor until it was too late? The word for a girl at school whose personal mission is to mess with your head?
Anger 's not the right word.
Rage. That's what this feeling is, eating me up.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“She had come to see her, they were together again, it did not matter much now what they said or did.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War