Hector

“Hazel was old, but with children still little: she had an exhausted air of experience, someone who thought a lot of things but actually knew very few.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

“What lengths will people stretch to believe they’re still good?”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“When you send away someone you love, you fantasize about the front door. You sense their familiar shoulders fill its frame when your back is turned; every creak of the screen sticks in your throat. You lie in bed not wondering if you locked up the house but willing someone you're not sure you'll recognize to enter it.”
― Jessica Pearce Rotondi, What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers

“Memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.”
― Marilynne Robinson