Tess Hallman

“She always took a long time to get ready, though preparation was mostly a matter of time and not action--a slow shrug into herself.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Anyway, we may all just bee atoms in the void, but according to quantum mechanics, no object objectively exist at all, in the void or otherwise. Particles have no inherent values, only probabilities, and they only materialize when they are measured--which means that on a quantum level, reality simply isn't there unless we're looking directly at it. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, there is no tree, and no forest. Is it any different if that tree was once a girl? I think it is not.”
― Emily Temple, The Lightness

“I waited to be told what was good about me. I wondered later if this was why there were so many more women than men at the ranch. All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you--the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls