Abby Strzelecki

“I am a pomegranate ripe with moist seeds, each seed a killing I'm going to carry out at some future time. When I've no more seeds inside me, when there's nothing left but flesh, I want to meet the man who made me.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“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

“They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night