Marlene

“We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one. But who? Who is “I” in “I hurt”? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does “hurt” refer to the inflicting or the suffering?”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Sometimes I feel there are doors lurking in the creases of every sentence, with periods for knobs and verbs for hinges.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Even the most gifted poets had never been able to capture the vastness of the forest, for none had laid eyes on its depths: its endless trees, their unthinkable heights, the layers built up over thousands of centuries. [...] No one had charted the Lasian Basin, but Tunuva knew her way.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night