“Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: “Keep going.”
― Bride
― Bride
“We haven’t even been married for twenty-four hours. Praying mantises have longer honeymoon periods.”
― Bride
― Bride
“Maybe there is something devastating about the incompleteness of it. But maybe, just knowing that the other person is there . . .” His throat bobs. “There might be pleasure in that, too. The satisfaction of knowing that something beautiful exists.” His lips open and close a few times, as though he can only find the right words by shaping them first to himself. “Maybe some things transcend reciprocity. Maybe not everything is about having.”
― Bride
― Bride
“Every three hundred years or so, our kind gets loosed upon an unsuspecting world. And this time around, the history books would know us as the 1989 Danvers High School Women’s Varsity Field Hockey team. Be. Aggressive. B-E aggressive.”
― We Ride Upon Sticks
― We Ride Upon Sticks
“What I am is an adult woman with agency and the tools to make choices. Feel free to, you know, treat me accordingly.”
― Bride
― Bride
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