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“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

“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“To those moments when the night is just starting, when you know you're about to get into trouble. It feels so good, the beginning.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“We are each of us made up of all the times in our lives,’ she said, ‘and there are plenty of times when we aren’t fully ourselves. But that doesn’t mean those times aren’t important or beautiful.”
― Georgie Tilney, Beach Rivals