Kass

“The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our lives to love us unceasingly, and to put us back together.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Writing a book is lonely. No one writes a book alone. These things sound incongruous, but both are true.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“I thought I was writing a story about rage. I wasn’t. There is certainly rage in this novel, but it is about more than that. In its heart, this is a story about memory, and trauma. It’s about the damage we do to ourselves and our community when we refuse to talk about the past. It’s about the memories that we don’t understand, and can’t put into context, until we learn more about the world. And I thought I was writing about a bunch of fire-breathing, powerful women. And while those women certainly are in this book, it isn’t about them. It’s about a world upended by trauma and shamed into silence. And that silence grows, and becomes toxic, and infects every aspect of life. Perhaps this sounds familiar to you now—times being what they are.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“cyberspace was a word introduced in William Gibson's 1984 novel, Neuromancer, and it wasn't until 1991 that the world wide web came into existence.”
― Theresa Santa Czarnopys, The Internet and the Family