Emmy

“But what I’ve realized—what I think he already knew—is that we believed in the same thing. You could call it a trapdoor, a hidden compartment, or you could call it God: a placeholder for what we don’t know. A space where the impossible becomes possible.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She had never heard of a female magician. (‘Why are there so few of us?’ she asked Ilya once. ‘For one thing,’ he said, ‘the Inquisition. For two more, the Reformation and the Salem Witch Trials. What’s more, the clothing. You ever try to hide a dove in an evening gown?’)”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“He imagined a new God, one who nudged him when he was going the wrong way but never strong-armed him, one who advised but did not insist – one who guided him, like a father. A Father.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She’d tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists