Ladiibbug

“F--- that," she interrupted. "If everyone always waited till they felt ready, we'd all still be fish living on trees.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Finder

“I'm poor too, so I can't give you any money. But if you're not fussy I can provide your feed for you."
"What?"
"Oh sorry. It's the first time I have kept an animal at home, so it feels like having a pet, you see.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“I was never bored except in the company of others.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them.

(That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to save any mortal soul: books of witchery, augury, alchemy; books with wand-wood in their spines and moon-dust on their pages; books older than stones and wily as dragons. We give people the books they need most, except when we don’t.)”
― Alix E. Harrow, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018