Olivia Batson

“Oh yeah I'm always scared of stuff. You get to a certain age and they stop calling it scared and start calling it anxiety.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“When I was a little girl my uncle
Was a veterinarian
And I was a little girl who loved animals
I had a cat and a dog

And once I asked my uncle (who was a veterinarian)
Why does my dog love belly rubs
But they make my cat attack?
I showed him scratches up and down my arms.

He said the thing about cats you have to understand Is they are predator and prey
They can hunt and pounce and kill
But they’re small and light and probably
Delicious
So they take some things very very seriously

I was a little girl when he said this
But when I became a woman in this world
I understood what he meant.”
― Nat Cassidy , Mary

“The frightened man eats himself”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence