My Favorite Terrible Thing

by Madeleine Henry

Maybe it’s not a stretch to have fifteen thousand years inside my head, after growing up with views this deep.”

Because she’s learned how to make a living out of being forgettable.

Passion is just . . . energy. Fuel for something else.

“I never know in the moment what’s going to matter. It’s only looking back that I can tell which days counted a little bit more.”

How many people mark up a book they read for fun?

Everyone strong and powerful is really only strong and powerful in specific places, under specific conditions.