Sorina

“What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet?”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

“I’m about to die of terminal curiosity, you know.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace and Other Stories

“Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing