Hanna Lyons

“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“So now there is not even anyone to dream about, and what an odd feeling. I don’t have the strength to put together the features of a fantasy face. I am heartbroken over no one, over having nobody to wish for, nobody to hope for. I am heartbroken, usually, over someone. Now I am heartbroken over no one”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“My family bought a new T.V.
the year I came.
It lasted seven years.”
― Cate Murray, Outskirts of the Woods

“How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding?”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains