Kate

“In retrospect, my inability to put it together was its own sort of gift. I would understand what they were doing soon enough, at which point I would finally understand what I had done to Veronica. Veronica had such a small part in the story and still I loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“the shock of the water—there is nothing like it on land. The cool clear liquid flowing over every inch of your skin. The temporary reprieve from gravity. The miracle of your own buoyancy as you glide, unhindered, across the glossy blue surface of the pool. It’s just like flying. The pure pleasure of being in motion. The dissipation of all want. I’m free. You are suddenly aloft. Adrift. Ecstatic. Euphoric. In a rapturous and trancelike state of bliss. And if you swim for long enough you no longer know where your own body ends and the water begins and there is no boundary between you and the world. It’s nirvana.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

“The thing is, May,' the hum said, 'the goal of advertising is to rip a hole in your heart, so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other materials that can be yanked out of the earth, and, after brief sojourns as objects of desire, be converted to waste.”
― Helen Phillips, Hum: A Novel

“Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― Percival Everett, James