Maddie

“That not being understood is a privilege I can’t afford. That I can’t believe this woman got paid to come here. That I think she should apologize to trees. Spend a whole day on her knees in the forest, looking up at the trembling aspens and oaks and whatever other trees paper is made of with tears in her languid eyes and say, I’m fucking sorry. I’m sorry that I think I’m so goddamned interesting when it is clear that I am not interesting. Here’s what I am: I’m a boring tree murderess.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“I keep turning away from speaking of your letter. I feel--to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
― Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War