Selena

“She knows - or rather, is haunted by - all sorts of things she'll never talk about to anyone. Mainly because she's frightened of these revelations that go coursing through her, but also because naming them would give them a reality, an existence. She's more interested in casting them out.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“What an unbelievable scam it is to get everything you've been told to want.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Immaculate Conception

“And if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent to being loved?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Dreams were like a crucial water source nurturing your heart, conveying something vital.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls