Shoshana

“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“Some mornings, she’d wake and vow, Today, I will get it right. I won’t be such an awful mess of a girl. I won’t lose my temper or make unkind remarks. I won’t go too far with a joke and feel the room go quiet with disapproval. I’ll be good and kind and sensible and patient. The sort everyone loves. But by evening, her good intentions would have unraveled. She’d say the wrong thing or talk a little too loudly. She’d take a dare she shouldn’t, just to be noticed. Perhaps Mabel was right, and she was selfish. But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? “Oh, Evie, you’re too much,” people said, and it wasn’t complimentary. Yes, she was too much. She felt like too much inside all the time. So why wasn’t she ever enough?”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.”
― Camron Wright, The Rent Collector

“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners