Rachel

“She'd given him arrows and he'd shot, and now parts of her were gaping holes, flayed and filleted and left behind as open wounds.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“The bass is as much about the quiet as it is about the sound; in the same way a heartbeat contracts and relaxes, filling with life, a single note needs stillness to breathe.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson

“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars