Kate

“You need a reason to be sad. You don’t need a reason to be happy.”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“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

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