Alex

“By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I've learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one's head.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“How hard it is to hate a person you've once loved.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House