Kasey

“Closing your eyes doesn’t stop monsters from devouring you.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

“In the last fifty years, the world’s wildlife has declined by an average of almost seventy percent. We have lost more than half of all wild things that lived.

We are Noah’s Ark in reverse: it is as if we are raging through the bowels of the boat, setting fire to the stables, poisoning the water. Faced with such destruction at such pace, acquiescence becomes impossible. The time to fight, with all our ingenuity and tenacity, and love and fury, is now.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“You are about to begin reading a new book, and to be honest, you are a little tense. The beginning of a novel is like a first date. You hope that from the first lines an urgent magic will take hold, and you will sink into the story like a hot bath, giving yourself over entirely. But this hope is tempered by the expectation that, in reality, you are about to have to learn a bunch of people's names and follow along politely like you are attending the baby shower of a woman you hardly know. And that's fine, goodness knows you've fallen in love with books that didn't grab you in the first paragraph. But that doesn't stop you from wishing they would, from wishing they would come right up to you in the dark of your mind and kiss you on the throat.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“If someone hates the world, and you’re the only exception, then surely that proves something.”
― Holly Gramazio, The Husbands