Amy

“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown