Bard Ampora

“You have never been a pot person - you have, in fact, been a bit of a ninny when it comes to drugs; when you even say the word drugs you feel ridiculous - but you smoke because she does and she'll be annoyed if you don't.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Later, you will learn that a common feature of domestic abuse is "dislocation." That is to say, the victim has just moved somewhere new or she's somewhere where she doesn't speak the language, or has been otherwise uprooted from her support network, her friends or family, her ability to communicate. She is made vulnerable by her circumstance, her isolation. Her only ally is her abuser, which is to say she has no ally at all.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Who are you? You are nobody. You are nothing.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“A theory about the end of everything; the heat death of the universe. Entropy will take over and matter will scatter and nothing more.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House