Cathy

“Instead, the Last Woman on Earth had been handed a talk show, not because she deserved it, but simply because she was a woman. The Last Man on Earth dies with resentment in his heart.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“We've stayed put through worse storms,' Elise's mom said.

'It's not a tornado, Mom. It's a curtain of absence that negates everything it touches.'

'Might as well be negated in our own house, then.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“My female friends have all coupled with men who are feeding off their organs and whose organs they are feeding off of, a symbiotic process that will continue until they break up or one of them dies. If and when they return to me, single again, they'll be diminished in body and spirit - feet swollen from renal failure, or eyes jaundiced, or breath coming short, a piece of their lung or liver or kidney on a shelf in some man's house.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“You think if only you could find a partner whose desire manifests in a relatively noninvasive way. But of course it's a foolish hope. The more someone loves you, the more he'll want to meddle with the most vital parts of you, and vice versa.”
― Kate Folk, Out There