L. V.

“Sometimes I want to say I love you all," said the mole, "but I find it difficult."
"Do you?" said the boy.
"Yes, so I say something like I'm glad we are all here."
"Ok," said the boy.
"I'm glad we are all here."
"We are so glad you are here, too.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Personally, I think she liked living there, between the pages with him. Always adding little bits of memory but never closing the door.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn’t that they’ll remember; it’s that you’ll remember. —Sarah Manguso”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“The idea of drowning doesn’t bother me, though, since we’re made of water anyway. It’s kind of like your body overflowing with itself.”
― Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling