Natalie

“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun."

A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on a white, bony thigh. She doesn't slap at it. It doesn't go away.

"But there's no sun, dude." I tell her.

I start to walk away. So what, I mutter under my breath. When she wants to come in, she will. Imagine a blind person dreaming. I head back up toward the house. Wonder if Griffin will stick around, if Mona made reservations for dinner, if Spin will call back. "I know what the word dead means," I whisper to myself as softly as I can because it sounds like an omen.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle