B

“I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

“She continues talking about how difficult things were. These tales have been passed down from mothers to daughters since women had mouths and stories could be told. They contain some moral message, some rites of passage. But they also transfer that feeling all mothers know before their time is done. Guilt.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“There was probably a scientific explanation for it, but the older she got, the more she was inclined to give in to the feeling that these moments were glimpses into a world greater than this physical one. It was as if there were cycles that repeated themselves over and over, but most people never saw the repetition; they were too deeply enmeshed in their own path to see.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“I had been taught for most of my life that the moment for living was yet to come, that the phase I was living in, a perpetual state of childhood, was a time for waiting. And so, I waited, impatiently, resentfully, longing for this period of incapacitation to pass.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar