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

“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

“history is simple.
And the past?
The past is complicated.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. Could there be a third kind of person? she wondered. One who overcomes the shame?”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women