Jennifer

“What's as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarried by her own. Girl as sacrifice to the idea of girl. Girl as a series of childhood photographs, all marked with the aura of girl who will die young, as if even the third grade portrait photographer should have seen it written on her face, that this was a girl who would only ever be a girl.
The bystander, the voyeur, even the perpetrator—they're all off the hook when the girl was born dead.
On the internet and on TV, they love that.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You

“Juniper runs her tongue over he teeth and lays out the next words like a winning hand of cards, a heartless snap. "Dead men usually stay put.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“I’m not really a suffragist. I mean, I’m not a formal member of the Association.”

“Nor am I, and yet I persist in having all manner of opinions and observations.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Alison realized the Cousins usually looked tired and vaguely depressed. It was as though being here and dealing with regular human people was just so much work.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden