Mariana

“I was my own most persistent ghost, and I had grown weary of her haunting.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“I’m not sure if it’s a lie or not. Maybe “good” isn’t the right word for where I am, but keeping my head above water when I feel like I’m drowning is good, right?”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“I cared for words with a reverence I rarely shared with anyone—how could you share them, anyway, when words were imagined things?”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story