Agnes

“I’m motivated by a singular thought that loops like a skipping CD player: it’s been decided. All the thoughts, all the memories—they just decided how this would all end for me. I had no say. I had no choice.”
― Janani K. Jha, Katathon: The Official Companion Novella to The Rest of the Laurels

“Some lives run invisibly. Undetected by most. And when a person comes along who sees those lives for what they are, who acknowledges their reality, who reminds people that there is value in different ways of existing . . . A minute of that is worth more than a thousand nights with a lover. Wouldn’t you agree?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“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

“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