Jessica

“She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Because hubris is not only a sin, it's a fun game to play at parties”
― Mira Grant, Parasite

“You miss the idea of him. There you go. Was that so hard? “That goes away, too,” says your friend. Through the magic of the biological imperative, his brain has been reprogrammed. He has been forced to gloss over his own romantic carnage so that he might once again start down that road of procreation. He has nineteen layers of skin; you have three-fourths of a layer. They’re all like this, the recovered. Sometimes you want to hop across the table, curl up in their laps, and beg to be made one of them. How does it work? Hypnosis? A chip in the neck? A radioactive spider with Xanax venom?”
― Sloane Crosley, How Did You Get This Number: Essays

“Paul couldn't abide your radiance, my dear. He fled before he could be blinded.”
― Mira Grant, Parasite