Yong Comins

“I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
― R.D. Ronald

“19. THE WALL OF DICTIONARIES BETWEEN MY MOTHER AND THE WORLD GETS TALLER EVERY YEAR

Sometimes pages of the dictionaries come loose and gather at her feet, shallon, shalop, shallot, shallow, shalom, sham, shaman, shamble, like the petals of an immense flower. When I was little, I thought that the pages on the floor were words she would never be able to use again, and I tried to tape them back in where they belonged, out of fear that one day she would be left silent.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself—and from each other.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

“This is the world I'm trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen