Cristell

“One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“Expecto Patronum!” She poured every drop of emotion she had into the spell.

White light exploded from her wand, growing larger and larger until her Patronus fully corporalized.

Not her otter.

Not a blur.

Hermione stared up as a full-sized Antipodean Opaleye emerged from her wand. It filled the sky. It threw back its head, roaring and unfurling enormous wings. It opened its mouth, and white flames poured from it.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“because when you are in pain, sometimes the only escape is another different pain.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep