Chrystal McKay

“It occurred to me then, mouth full of chocolate chip banana mush, that our past is not the truth. It’s warped by time and emotion, inevitably muddied by love and resentment, joy and shame, hope and regret. I couldn’t trust my own memories. Good or bad.”
― Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“You must know monsters well, wolf girl.”
“I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large enough to breathe in this much air, his eyes could never see this much space, nor could he near the full extent of the rolling, roaring ocean. For the briefest moment, he had no edges.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans