Hillary

“Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it turns out, is a problem for people.”
― Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds

“The periodical cicada hibernates underground in broods, feeding on fluids from tree roots. It would be easy to think them dead; perhaps, in some way--sedentary and silent, nestled two feet below the soil--they are. One night, seventeen years later, they break through the surface in astounding numbers. They climb the nearest vertical object; the husks of their nymphal skins drop crisply to the ground. Their bodies are pale and not yet hardened. In the darkness, they sing.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“The things that could have happened but did not are just as crucial to a life as all the things that do.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Klara won’t be a woman who is sawed in half or tied in chains—nor will she be rescued or liberated. She’ll save herself. She’ll be the saw.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists