Justine

“She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“A good story cannot function like a legal brief, which attempts to persuade and lead the reader down a narrow path suspended above the abyss of unreason. Rather, it must be more like an empty house, an open garden, a deserted beach by the ocean. The reader moves in with their own burdensome baggage and long-cherished possessions, seeds of doubt and shears of understanding, maps of human nature and baskets of sustaining faith. The reader then inhabits the story, explores its nooks and crannies, rearranges the furniture to suit their taste, covers the walls with sketches of their inner life, and thereby makes the story their home.”
― Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories