Mallory

“Where I come from we call what you’re feeling The Black Tide. It will pass. Tides, by their nature, come and go.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“You know so much, Onida."
"I have nine brains—which never stop growing—three hearts, and I can regenerate my arms; but mostly, it's because I'm female." Female. Well, shit. Admittedly, I had limited knowledge of them, but they had always seemed omniscient and formidable to me.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“If I’m honest, I came to escape a feeling—an attempt that’s already going poorly, because unfortunately I’ve brought myself with me, and I see, as the last pink light creeps out to infinity, that I am still the kind of person who makes another person’s coma all about me.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“Big Jim was not a crow, but he knew about the loyalty of murder, which makes him as much crow as any I’d met. “Crows before hoes,” said Big Jim, pretending he wasn’t drowning as I sat on his shoulder and collected his tears.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom