Aly

“It's easier than you'd ever think—existing in plain sight while remaining largely invisible. That's what I've learned from being a maid. You can be so important, so crucial to the fabric of things and yet be entirely overlooked.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“She worried for a moment that she was confused again. Her judgement was thin ice and she hesitated to trust it. But this had been real. It wouldn't hurt to make sure. After all, she was only a housewife. What else did she have to do?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“...story is more than just a discarded by-product if your bare experience. Story is its own bare experience. Fish swim in water, unaware that it is water. Birds fly in air, unaware that it is air. Story is the air that you people breathe, the ocean you swim in, and we books are the rocks along the shoreline that channel your currents and contain your tides. Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“She didn't regret any of it. What had been destroyed made what remained that much more precious. That much more solid. That much more important.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires