Hannah

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families who’d disappeared, I said over and over again: “Everyone is dead.” If they insisted, showing me family photos, I’d calmly say: “Were there any children? Not a single child will come back.” I didn’t mince my words, I didn’t try to spare their feelings, I was used to death. I’d become as hard-hearted as the deportees who saw us arrive at Birkenau without saying a single comforting word. Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back

“The longer she lived in San Viejo, the more she appreciated the kind of things that went with living. Like having a window open when you slept, and grass, and tortillas. Being happy when people came to visit, and being happy when they left. The way certain things felt wonderful when you held them in your hands: a book, an ax, a baby, a beer, a big-ass pile of M&M’s.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees.”
― Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories