Selena ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☁︎

“He sighs as if a little disgusted with himself. ‘Lately, I seem to be all about you.’
‘What makes you say that?’ I wish my voice didn’t sound so breathless.
‘I’m sitting on the hard floor outside your door while you take a cozy little nap, aren’t I?”
― Susan Ee, End of Days

“If I were human, I’d plow the nicest farm for you.’ He sounds completely sincere. ‘Better than anyone else’s. It would have golden pineapples, the juiciest grapes, and the most flavorful radishes in the entire world.’
I just stare at him, trying to figure out if he’s joking. I think he’s serious. ‘You haven’t been to a lot of farms, have you, Raffe? Most of us aren’t farmers anymore anyway.’
‘That wouldn’t diminish my little human commitment to you.”
― Susan Ee, End of Days

“I like the look of a collaged girl, a girl with mismatched limbs and words written on her body, glitter nail polish painted over her pores. She’s unnatural and a little disturbing, sure, but she’s sparkling, and she’s with her sisters.”
― Emmeline Clein, Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

“So if it’s not a pig farm that you want, what is it?” he asks.
I swallow. “How about a safe place to live where we don’t have to scrounge for food or fight for it?”
“It’s yours.”
“That’s it? All I have to do is ask?”
“No. There’s a price for everything.”
“I knew it. What is it?”
“Me.”
― Susan Ee, End of Days