Sreya Vadlamani

“I would rather be a murderess than a murderer, if those are the only choices.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“But in the mornings, he could never remember what those things were. In those moments he wished, perversely, that he had never met her, that it was surely worse to have had her for so brief a period than to never have had her at all.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I do not now nor did I ever have anything in common with any of them, nothing except a knowledge of Greek and the year of my life I spent in their company. And if love is a thing held in common, I suppose we had that in common, too, though I realize that might sound odd in light of the story I am about to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“This water is cool and clean as anything I have ever tasted; it tastes of my father leaving, of him never having been there, of having nothing after he was gone.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster