Taylor Rogers

“She wanted it all to have never happened. She wanted her mind back. And she wanted to be more than a body, more than mere flesh, a thing to inscribe and observe and maybe fondle when you were bored. She wanted the version she was promised...but this was all a fairy tale.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“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

“Her eyes shone, burned, intent on her mission as only a creature with no doubts as to either Creation's glory or its meaninglessness could be.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All it took was to tell a lie– and to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that all rules could be suspended. You held a conclusion in your head and believed, through sheer force of will, that everything else was wrong. You had to see the world as it was not.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis