Selina

“He blathers on until all language ceases to have meaning and my ears involuntarily begin to deafen themselves and melt into my skull.”
― Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey

“You can’t expect people to keep their elbows off the table if they have only ever eaten off the floor.”
― Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey

“I have worked on myself since being a kid. I now carry myself, for the most part, like I am socially apt and confident. ... I started mimicking the behavior of confident people when I was a teenager, and I have worn that mask so long now that my face is melding with it. There are parts of me I wish I could train out that I can't. You can train a dog not to bite, sit on the furniture, or piss in the house, but you can't train them to become birds. ... I feel self-loathing so deeply I think if I cracked myself open, I would see the physical manifestation of it calcified in my bones like a geode.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“We are going to watch a scary movie. I felt like watching something frightening so I could exert power over it. I want to eat popcorn while I watch it and laugh while it tries to scare me.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space