Michaela Edson

“I have put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it's impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn’t worked. I must try something new.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“her knowing grin and propensity to bring me home-cooked food reminds me of my own grandmother, who died this past summer, leaving behind a void that will never be filled.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building