Taylor Rogers

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of ous out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Yells and howls, threaded together layer upon layer, are emmeshed to form that lump. Because of meat. I ate too much meat. The lives of the animals I ate have all lodged there. Blood and flesh, all those butchered bodies are scattered in every nook and cranny, and though the physical remnants were excreted, their lives still stick stubbornly to my insides.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Maybe that was just how murder became possible. You took away someone’s humanity and then you killed them. (22)”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Love is simply a matter of what people need and what they lack. It's two broken things fitting together for a time.”
― Stuart Turton