Katie Hurse

“Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wandering

“She's beautiful, but it's a faded beauty now, as if she's been washed too many times.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

“I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream myself into priests and wanderers, female cooks and murderers, children and animals, and, more than anything else, birds and trees; that is necessary, I want it, I need it so I can go on living, and if sometime I were to lose these possibilities and be caught in so-called reality, then I would rather die.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wandering

“I made Monstrous Sea because it's the story I wanted. I wanted a story like it, and I couldn't find one, so I created it myself.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters