Casey

“They’re afraid because we exist, she says. There’s nothing we did to provoke their fear, other than exist. There’s nothing we can do to earn their approval, except stop existing—so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“If I cannot forget, what is there? I am always remembering, even when I am not. Me is in itself a remembrance. Me does not exist without the past that shaped my being. And what is there between memory and forgetting? Today?”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“I’m Gentleman Death in silk and lace”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I took it. I set one foot in the stirrup”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting