Selena

“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

“She has learned to wear a mask of detachment, has become so adept at it that someday, she fears, it may become her only face.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“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

“Her memory did that sometimes; she confused memories and reality, her imagination was too vivid, she couldn’t help it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis