Meg Chen

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Marta is silent for a long time. Aubry thinks Marta is asleep, but then Marta says, in a long, slow murmur: “I spent my life chasing things I could not have.”
― Douglas Westerbeke, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“God loves you, but not enough to save you.”
― Ethel Cain