Rachael

“You sank our toy ship /
sank it deep in the cake.
You shook up our house /
and you bent our new rake!"
~ Fish, to Cat”
― Dr. Suess

“Land lied to the feet, and to the soul. You stand, it whispered, upon unchanging ground. You build upon certainty, and your foundations will never crumble. Ms.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Some people need their families to become who they’re supposed to be. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Maybe both our societies are messed up, and they each only think one type of person is really a person. And the type of person they think is really a person is allowed to show imperfections and age . . . whereas the type of person they think is an object should show no signs of being a person. We’re socialized to see the imperfections in those objects.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands