Zoya

“I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“to live in a country where someone can say “the massacre” and you don’t have to ask which one.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“You can call out for anything you desire, however aberrant or unlikely, and nearly always there comes an answer, it's a large world, we're never as solitary as we think, as unique or unprecedented, what we feel has always already been felt, again and again, without beginning or end.”
― Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster