Kat

“The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“He would stay though. He told himself he would stay and not give up and just have patience. Life was long if you didn't get killed accidentally or get some disease. Things changed. He could wait and see what would happen. In his worst moments that's what he would tell himself. Just wait.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“Something had deepened in me. An emptiness that blew me up like a balloon with its nothingness, and floated me off to that non-place in the gray.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“Everything that happens to a tribe happens to everyone in the tribe. Good and bad. Their mom said that once. But then she said now that we’re so spread out, lost to each other, it’s not the same, except that it’s the same in our families, everything that happens to you once you make a family, it happens to all of you, because of love, and so love was a kind of curse.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars