Kate

“One must understand that silver and mercury love each other, Juan de Cárdenas went on. They embrace and unite, the one with the other.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Díaz

“Sentiments look different when they’re in cold hard print—the coldest, hardest print imaginable.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

“She also depicted the cruel jokes of fate and chance unfolding in an amoral universe. It’s just that instead of doing it with men and guns, she chose to write about mad, lonely girls and big, sinister houses.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War