Rhawnie Kupfer

“Some might think New York is a greedy, selfish, aggressive place, and they’re not entirely wrong, but it’s also a place filled with generous people who share their spirit with the world. Maybe this man is on some sort of rotation, spending the quiet hours of every evening bringing music to a different corner of the city. And every few months, he ends up in mine.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“By picking up one piece at a time. You’ll see all these shards scattered on the floor, and none of them will make sense to you. But you’ll pick one up, and after rummaging through a plethora of others, you’ll find one that perfectly fits with the one you picked up. And that piece will motivate you to find another, and another, and so on. And then one day, you’ll look down, and you’ll see that no more shards remain, and you’ll see a completed mirror. With cracks, sure, but completed enough to let you see yourself in it.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They’re the ones who see that something’s wrong. That’s why they act out—because they see the house is burning down, and they’re screaming for help. That was you. The rest of us were just sitting at the kitchen table, eating dinner, while everything was burning down around us. I should have listened to you. I should have screamed for help too.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“I think we’re raised to believe that happiness is something we’ve been promised. That we all deserve to be happy. Which is why this really fucked-up thing that’s happening to some of us is so hard to accept. Because we’re supposed to be happy.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure