Bob

“By the time Ava returned home, she was ready for a long shower and a date with the only boys she’d ever really been into—Ben and Jerry.”
― Alex K. Thorne, Chasing Stars

“She’d never put words to it, but she believed most humans wanted laws—to feel safe from people with the wrong amount of money, the wrong color skin, the wrong religion or thoughts or words, and so they begged for them. They worshipped laws, because laws were how they puffed themselves up and pushed their foes into the mud. In one blink of Ryn’s eye, though, the laws turned around like tigers and mauled the ones who made them. It was idiotic, and she felt bad for Naomi’s father, because he had a principle; but there weren’t many like him. Most of their kind loved flags. Most deserved to choke on them.”
― Casey Matthews, The One Who Eats Monsters

“You see?” Ryn asked once they stood in the pool of darkness. “It’s empty.” “I see.” Her voice wasn’t quite as high or thin as before. “But how do you know before you’re in it?” “Because I’m from places where shadows aren’t empty. I know the difference.”
― Casey Matthews, The One Who Eats Monsters

“There is no ‘back’ for me. My home is gone.”

“What do you mean ‘gone’?”

“Changed. Time makes us all homeless —eventually.”
― Casey Matthews, The One Who Eats Monsters