Cristi

“Tragedy had a texture. A knot, begging to be unraveled.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Louise held Poppy’s feverish, limp body for hours, wishing harder than she’d ever wished before that for just sixty seconds someone would hold her, but no one holds moms.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“Power is a funny thing. You know how they say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference? Like, we’re looking at the scale all wrong.” She tapped her nail against the glass. “I think it’s the same thing with fear. The opposite of fear isn’t safety. It’s power.”
― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

“Our mothers call us brutes when they want us to feel bad. It is what they call men they do not like, like our dads.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes