Lori

“See the bird walk, the information board, the noble fir in all its hollow frippery. See the takeaway, the chip shop. The pub, the other pub. The grocer’s and the hairdressing salon, all shut. See the community we were insidiously hounded from. See how community is only a good thing when you’re a part of it.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

“Ya=hey," he called out to the movement of air, the unseen. A summer before, Uncle Moses listened to his nephew John-John talking a story. John-John was back from college and told Moses that 99 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to the human eye. Ever since, Moses made sure to greet what he could not see.”
― Sherman Alexie

“recognise him as a person who is lonely as opposed to solitary, who did not choose to be on his own but involuntarily lost people until he was.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

“It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece.
Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven