Lorena B. Robles

“Her children are pulling her thin. Each of them, as they left her body, tugged a part of her with them out into another life. She is divided by each of them. She will die like the mint plant at the end of the garden. Last spring, its babies sprouted out from its roots, and all through the summer, the mother plant remained, a bunch of dry yellow twigs. She never dug it out.”
― Elske Rahill, An Unravelling

“with email you did not have the heft of the pages, the life of the ink woven tight into the paper, rushing across it, a thing that had come directly from the other person’s own hand. Or from the pen in their hand, which was almost the same; which was almost like touching them for yourself. In”
― Belinda McKeon, Tender: A Novel

“Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“The most complicated thing is a heart that is trying to decide.”
― Jeongseo, 투명한 동거 [Tumyeonghan Donggeo] 1-3