and the truth stomped over me in combat boots.


“What I didn’t see was that the time had severe brackets around it. Within those brackets nothing else existed. Outside of them, all you could remember was the blur of a momentary madness.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter

“A certain connoisseurship of taste, a mark of how you deal with the world, is the ability to relish the bitter, to crave it even, the way you do the sweet.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter

“I wish now that I had known this was weird.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones

“You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don’t know if there is anything less helpful.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter

“Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
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