Agnes

“You were right, Asha.” “About what?” “You’ve changed.” The tip of his mouth twitches. I can’t tell if he’s smiling or suppressing a frown. “You’re not the girl I used to know.”
― Janani K. Jha, Katathon: The Official Companion Novella to The Rest of the Laurels

“Greed is a factory.”
― Janani K. Jha, Katathon: The Official Companion Novella to The Rest of the Laurels

“Those with the greatest freedom often made the most foolish use of it. They took it for granted, assumed it would always be an inalienable fact of their existence. They didn’t appreciate how fragile and precious a gift they’d been given. Only those who had suffered its loss truly understood it was a tenuous treasure.”
― Casie Aufenthie, The Drift

“How many people wander the Earth above shells of themselves, I wonder? Living day by day, no sign of when the ache will stop, taking one step after the other in the darkness with no indication of when the sun will finally rise? Swallowing their emotion, not allowing themselves to feel a fraction of it, lest they slip up and face the totality of it before they are ready.”
― Janani K. Jha, Katathon: The Official Companion Novella to The Rest of the Laurels