Kat

“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

“You were here, then you were gone.
I love you. Am practicing saying that.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

“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 told me she was known to be erratic and insane, but he was the only person I’d heard that from. To me, she appeared sweet, and delicate. She spoke in a soft voice and tucked her fluffy blond hair behind her ears a lot. I have no idea what the truth of what happened between them was, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire, as the saying goes, and some days as I cooked him eggs in our heavy cast-iron griddle I felt as if I was betraying every woman who ever lived.”
― Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story