Erin

“If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Is this a haunting? I asked her and she looked at me as if surprised. No, she said, turning the radio down, not technically. More like a manifestation. I accused her of quibbling over semantics and she accused me of being incapable of nuance.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“What if beneath every lawyer’s suit and every stay-at-home-parent’s apron, everyone is just a baby who doesn’t know what they’re doing? I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they’ve morphed into.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“There's a selfishness to you, she said. A mean streak. You're not always very kind to people. I objected to this and took her judgement away to stew over, finally coming to the conclusion that she was right after all and enjoying that, in a childish, contrary way. It became oddly like permission, this acknowledgement - the mean streak, once spoken aloud, a quality I found too easy to excuse in myself.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow