Katlyn

“With my sister - there's a difference between loving a person and loving a memory of them. Or loving who someone is and who you want them to be.”
― Monica Hesse, They Went Left

“I don't want you to work. You're too young. I want you to still have a normal childhood. School was important to Papa and Mama; you remember."
He rolls his eyes. "I'm not a child." There's a testiness in his voice, like I heard when I wouldn't let him have the wine at the wedding.
"Well, I want you to still have a normal life," I amend my statement. "Normal twelve-year-olds go to school."
"Normal twelve-year-olds don't survive Birkenau by jumping into latrines to hide from the commandant every time there was a selection. It's too late for me to be a normal twelve-year-old.”
― Monica Hesse, They Went Left

“Take your time. I brought a novel!”
― Ransom Riggs, The Desolations of Devil's Acre

“Something was stirring in the dark water, the old sailors claimed. Something that called itself Old Tom.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water