Prima

“Certain stories are recounted so many times that they become parched of meaning, stories like those concerning the girl and her wolf in the woods, the cinder-smudged princess, the monstrous beauty who vomits pearls with every sob.

Others, however, are kept from taverns and wine-warmed conversations, catalogued but rarely recited. Complicated stories with no easy ending, stories that remind us karmic debt is a contrivance of despair, that there is nothing fair or sweet about this world.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“I’d rather drink a can of Axe body spray while feral raccoons feast on my exposed bone marrow than sit across from this twat.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Tell me: is your joy sweeter for your knowledge of what it is like to die? Do you enjoy every sunset better? Or does it stain you, follow like the whisper of a nightmare that will not end with your waking?”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“It’s not a crime to be born into privilege, what matters is using it instead of closing your eyes to it.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman