Dalila Heto

“She thought of him out in the henyard, naming all the chickens. The way the goat followed him from room to room, chewing at his sleeves. The way he'd sharpened himself into something cruel, to hide the fact that all he wanted was someplace soft to land.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“There’s no such thing as greater good—there’s just good, and the more of it we can do, the better.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes

“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn't right, but we don't know how to politely extricate ourselves from the situation without escalating the threat of violence or harassment. That is not a skill women are taught, the same way men are not taught that it is okay to leave a woman alone if what she wants is to be left alone.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins