Abby Strzelecki

“A critic said, "Gothic tales rely on distant pasts and faraway lands full of people unlike us," except he was wrong, because the land of this story is everywhere. The people are us, the time is always.”
― Natalia Theodoridou, Sour Cherry

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“he took Gaspar’s face in his hands, leaned down to look him in the eyes, and caressed his hair, the box on the ground between them, and he said, You have something of mine, I passed on something of me to you, and hopefully it isn’t cursed, I don’t know if I can leave you something that isn’t dirty, that isn’t dark, our share of night. I like this, said Gaspar, and his father replied, Of course you do, because now nothing can hurt you. Nothing? Right now, nothing.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“I say something

it sounds like words

it's not what they want to hear”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat