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“All you have to do is breathe, and you seduce me.”
― Grace Draven, Entreat Me

“So naturally, I caught myself making up personalities for him - you know, the way you do with pets and cute boys and famous people. What’s that called? Anthropomorphism. You do it so that you feel like you can relate personally to whatever it is – your dog, or God or whatever. You do that so you can care about things, and so that life at least appears to make sense. And maybe you do it so you can feel like something cares about you.
The dangerous thing about doing that, Paul told me one time, is what you end up caring about isn’t necessarily what’s really there – just what you’ve decided is there.
Which may be very far from the truth. So you could very easily end up depending on a lie. Or a dream.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.

I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]

I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.

I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]

But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“For a while I was looking for a person but I didn't find them and after that I was looking for myself. Now that I've found me I'm back to exploring, which is what I was doing in the first place before I was doing anything else and I think I was supposed to be exploring all along.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea