kater’s lib

“It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“He hadn't understood why they wanted him to stay alive, only that they had, and so he had done it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove