Mia

“People tried to make sense of tragedy, when the point of tragedy was that it was senseless. Bad things didn't happen for a greater reason. They just happened.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“xxx all souls are equal in heaven.

Only in heaven, I thought. And this is not heaven. This is a place for snakes and ladders, and though I was once high up on a ladder propped up against the Tree of Life, now I've slid down a snake. How gratifying for the others to witness my fall!”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Even poetry, which breaks language into meaning--poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do. What's supple, whipping, soft, and fresh grows hard, grows armor.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer