Selena

“My first thought was that we were having a massive earthquake. But it was no earthquake. The shaking was coming from inside me. The shaking inside me was merely projected in the outside world.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“She was like a horse in fetters, it was truly dreadful to behold: to be so full of life, yet bound up in chains. And for what? To what end? Merely to endure, to endure a little longer.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“The feeling fills her so full that it has to come out at the eyes. There’s nowhere else for it to go.”
― Ali Smith, Summer

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