Janine

“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“There are no words from this world for the entrance into the Darkness, no words for the last bite.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“She cried because at last it hit her that time only moves in one direction, no matter how hard we wish it wasn't so.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn't possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party