Megan Hex

“The telephone, though a remarkable device, is not designed for real communication, for the heavy lifting of personal interaction. For the big stuff, you have to be in the same physical space. Questions are asked and answered on a chemical level: Our species lived and loved and dealt with each other for millions of years before we developed language. It’s still only ever background music.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, The Intruders

“Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn’t spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.”
― Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Loop

“This fits with the broad cultural script that insists that women are interested in stories of violence because of their own history of violation—except that the women in the survey clarified that they weren’t just talking about harm that had been done to them personally, but societal trauma, too. A lot of them mentioned 9/11. Pain doesn’t have to be personal to be a motivating force.”
― Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box