Jessi Rowse

“Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial. It is not that your Julian chooses solely to concentrate on certain, exalted things; it is that he chooses to ignore others equally as important.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“They’re silent. “So basically,” Jude says at last, “basically, you’re saying I’m New Zealand.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The person he thought he knew had turned out to be, in some ways, not the person before him, and it had taken him time to figure out how many facets he had yet to see: it was as if the shape he had all along thought was a pentagram was in reality a dodecahedron, many sided and many fractaled and much more complicated to measure.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life