Katya Balen > Quotes

“We can stretch our sounds so that they
reach the very tops of our tallest trees and down to the secret-filled earth and so that they tangle in the brambles and skim across the pond because this world is ours and we are alone.

Just us.

A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that's
small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.”
― Katya Balen, October, October

“I think that home is a thousand different things that shift and change and stay the same. It's where you're from and where you're longing for and where you love and where you belong and where you're coming back to and sometimes it's everything and it's everywhere.”
― Katya Balen, Ghostlines

“It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole.”
― Katya Balen, October, October

“She might have walked this way, says Rey as she trails her fingers through the tall grass either side of us. She might have touched this grass and felt this earth. Isn't that kind of amazing?
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― Katya Balen, Foxlight