Lauren

“I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women here had always known: We were endangered, but we were dangerous, too; our peril was also our power.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

“I like knowing that my problems exist within a large and respected tradition of problems. That ever since the beginning of civilization, humans have been very upset.”
― Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

“We compare our thighs in the reflection of doors and people tell us that’s where our value lies.”
― Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

“I can't look at everything hard enough,' Lewis whispered into the stars again and again. The combination of words belonged to a character he would never play, but in that moment, he felt that the line had been written for him.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart