Lori

“My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / the rattle of bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“all the tall mad mountains of her mind”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

“It’s a sin for Lily to let Mercedes think it was Daddy who beat up Frances. But he has done it in the past. Surely truth can be borrowed across time without perishing. Shelf life, so to speak.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees