Alexis

“Maybe she wants someone to teach her how to be a human the correct way, the way she never learned. Someone to wake her up and tell her what to eat, what to dream about, what to cry about, who to pray to. Because Cora somehow feels that every choice she’s made has been wrong, that every choice she will ever make will lead her deeper and deeper into a life that feels like a dark, airless box, and when she peers through the slats in the wood she’ll see the pale light of who she might have been, so bright that it blinds her.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

“It’s frighteningly easy to get lost in your own subconscious; any place you think you know is different after dark.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“How she’d found the strength to climb out of that pit when no one else thought her worth saving, Jean didn’t know, but hand over bloodied hand she’d scaled the wall. She’d chosen life; she’d chosen hope. She’d chosen second chances, and now she was watching to see if he would follow.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“The need to be loved and feel like you belong is a biological imperative. That’s why so many people stay in abusive situations for so long: they convince themselves it’s not as bad as it is because the alternative—being alone—feels like a threat as real as death.”
― Madeline Claire Franklin, The Wilderness of Girls