Anton

“I wanted him to savor this time. Because one day he would lose it all. I would unleash a flood that would collapse this lovely world he’d built, tearing his flesh from his bone, stripping him raw of everything that gave him life.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“The twin specters of men’s violence and men’s contempt—eternal, unrelenting—have rendered any response, no matter how extreme, utterly reasonable.
The madwoman in the attic is not someone to be locked away or feared. We need her. We have always needed her.”
― Yōko Ogawa, Revenge

“The looming sky tells me that I will never be as ordinary as Mother needs, and I will never be as extraordinary as Susannah deserves. Let the rain come, let me be cleansed. Let me disappear into the fields and rise up and start again. Why can I not start again?”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I was sick of them. They always stepped in at the wrong time. They never paid attention when it counted—never showed up to our choir concerts or class charity events. They liked Tommy’s grades, but they never went to the awards nights to celebrate him. When we didn’t want them around, that was when our parents cared. That was when they suddenly interfered.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger