“A friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says 'Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed'--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk’”
— E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver Quartet)
“He was terribly aware of the forces that brought people together and split them apart, and he wondered what his daughter was doing, far across the city; if she was still telling the story of a girl caught between the tidal pull of the moon and of the world. Or if she had already moved on.”
— E. K. Ota, Girl from the Moon by E. K. Ota | Narrative Magazine
“Someone plays a chord. The choirmaster says, ‘Yes. But remember, old men lie awake at night. Have pity, for whether or not the aches and pains they feel are true, we must be patient with them. Because someday that old man will be you.'”
— Sara Houhteling, The Thomas Cantor by Sara Houghteling | Narrative Magazine