Jordan

“She seems fragile in a way I wasn’t able to see before, not when she and I were in the coffee shop or in any of the stuff she posts online. I see now what should have been obvious, that she was lost and looking for a way to understand it all—him, herself, what he did, and why it still means so much despite it being so seemingly small. I can hear Strane asking, impatient and impenitent, the question that must still ring through her head: When are you going to get over this? All I did was touch your leg.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Strange to think that for them it’s just another Friday night, how easily their ordinary lives go on, running parallel to my own.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“The article says Strane groomed the girls. Groomed. I repeat the word over and over, try to understand what it means, but all I can think of is the lovely warm feeling I'd get when he stroked my hair.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“What she worried for was not just her sister's life but her originality. She loved Star Wars so much, fur instance, that she had walked down the aisle to "The Imperial March". Would the impulse to walk down the aisle to "The Imperial March" - which seemed the essence of survival itself, the little tune we hummed in the dark - would that make it out of whatever was happening alive?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This