Jennifer

“But I've cared as much, I admit, about people I haven't met. I care about Judy Garland and Natalie Wood and the Black Dahlia. I care about the lacrosse player murdered by her ex at UVA, and the girl whose boyfriend was definitely not working at LensCrafters that day, and the high school student killed in her boyfriend's Shaker Heights home while everyone slept, and poor Martha Moxley, and the woman in the hotel elevator, and the only Black woman at the white-lady wine party, dead on the lawn, and the woman shot through the bathroom door by her famous boyfriend, who claimed he thought she was a burglar. I have opinions about their deaths, ones I'm not entitled to. I'm queasy, at the same time, about the way they've become public property, subject to the collective imagination. I'm queasy about the fact that the women whose deaths I dwell on are mostly beautiful and well-off. That most were young, as we prefer our sacrificial lambs. That I'm not alone in my fixations.”
― 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

“Lee kept glancing at them and felt like leaping up and yelling, 'I'll be able to prove everything soon! And you'll be sorry you laughed at me.' But she didn't, of course, because that wouldn't have been very British of her.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“she thinks of double-shifts and boarding-house fleas and all the nothing-girls whose highest hope is for a husband like Floyd Matthews, soft-palmed and stupid, and how it would feel to want more. She thinks of her daddy's knuckles and Mr. Malton's leers and how it would feel to be the dangerous one, for a change.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches