Alex

“as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you’re doing is bleeding and dying if you’re not making more life. That”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the ones that carry a sense of fault, a choice, a wrong turn – they haunt, fuse in you, become impossible to remove.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake