“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“There is an emotion that operates on a register above sheer terror. It lives on a mindless dog-whistle frequency. Its existence is in itself a horrifying discovery: like scanning a shortwave radio in the dead of night and tuning in to an alien wavelength—a heavy whisper barely climbing above the static, voices muttering in a brutal language that human tongues could never speak.”
― The Troop
― The Troop
“Look, if you don't make a fool of yourself over animals, at least in private, you aren't to be trusted.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Nevernight
― Nevernight
“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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