Thea

“You get on a train, you disappear.

You write your name on the window, you disappear.

There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”
― Louise Glück, Averno

“What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once.”
― Richard Siken

“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in some strange tangential way, he needed her shade as much as she needed his. And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes