Nancy

“This is why old people seem distant and distracted, he thought. We aren’t living in the past; the past is living in us. And it’s talking. We get old to be able to recalibrate everything we thought was going to be important. We get old just to hear it. It says, the days, the days, the days.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye

“For a human to love without expecting love in return is hugely liberating. To leave the self out of love is like escaping the grip of gravity. It is to grow wings. It opens up the sky.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

“Rye wondered if loving another person was a trap—that eventually you had to either lose them or lose yourself.”
― Jess Walter, The Cold Millions

“With all due respect, sir,” she said, “I do not believe justice will ever be truly possible, economic or otherwise, for any human being, until we have once and for all emancipated the vagina.”
― Jess Walter, The Cold Millions