Erin Clark

“Why couldn’t it have been you? Why couldn’t you be who you were supposed to be?” Shivers crawl down my arms, and my chest feels too small for my beating heart. “What do you make of that?” “I don’t make anything of it,” she murmurs. “I know exactly what she meant.” She sets her mug down. “He was the love of her life, and he let the world make him too small for her.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else’s.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“To the side, Ruin mimed applause.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Seriously?!” I call out after him, shaking my head as my smile grows. “C’mon, trouble,” he says, before turning onto his stomach to swim a breaststroke toward shore. I wish he was stroking my breast, but whatever.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods