If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.