Five years Quote by Lauren Oliver

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“You're probably also wondering how in the hell I can possibly be twenty-five years old when just yesterday I was four. I know, it's…

— Tara Sivec

“For two years, I haven’t given anyone the time of day. Now, here I am, day one into our new life, and I’m ready…

— K.A. Tucker

“Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear the little…

— William Edgar Stafford

“I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their…

— Christy Hall

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“This is where I liked to be when I was hangover or coming down off a cocaine binge, here in the dust with all…

— Anne Lamott

“I could see the writing on the wall. It wasn’t the ’90s. It wasn’t even the Pacific Northwest anymore. Something had come and swept…

— Grace Krilanovich

“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,…

— Andre Dubus III

“...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.”

— Jennifer Egan

“I wear loud clothes. They aren’t bright colors, but I do have speakers sewn into my shirts. What can I say, I’ve grown out…

— Jarod Kintz