Alison McIntyre

“his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single person: that they held within themselves a vast, unknowable universe. And he understood that it could make a person lonely; people had to take and give to one another whatever they could. If it was not enough…Well, then it meant one just had to be a grownup.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“Virginia Woolf would have loved Grindr.”
― Josh Silver, Fruit Fly

“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“And honestly? I think, even for citizens, I can see a time when due process just no longer exists. For any of us. Here.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say