Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.