Justin Danks

“It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scored you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old man.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“She looked directly up into the northern lights and she wondered if those cold-burning spectres might not draw her breath, her very soul, out of her chest and into the stars.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child