Neisha Oreta

“He was a bullet journal guy, and I was a sticky note kind of girl.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“She felt she understood now the first man Adam, how with each name he felt himself growing more powerful, closer to the God who had created and named him. Name after name, Adam felt his dominion tipping into domination until he believed that he owned the world by naming the things in it and that all the things of the world were his to do with as he wished. For this was how adults granted power to themselves over babies, and how babies without understanding surrendered themselves to adults until they were old enough to name others. How, in coming to this country, her fellow Englishmen believed they were naming this place and this people for the first time, and how it conferred upon them dominion here in this place”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“. . .two versions of my homeland will begin to exist, one that is built on the myths of my memories, and the real place, which keeps moving forward without me”
― Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit

“Was it contrived, god descending from machine, or was it because she had been vacant where he was vacant, and therefore both would inevitably seek to be filled?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether