Katie Antonelli

“As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“The power of land held a connection I could reckon with… For me, the earth gives life, and without it, we have none, not the smallest breath.” “Pa says if we hurt it, it won’t feed us.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“And if they blamed themselves, or considered themselves cursed in some way, they never spoke of it. They never spoke of it. They never spoke of it.”
― Victor Lavalle, Lone Women

“No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it. Our hurts are heavy, and we let them sink. Every day they drift lower, settling in murky places where the light can’t reach.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever