“Delilah never seemed the vengeful type. She drifted around life like she was riding a pool float, bumping into obstacles that gently nudged her to a new path but never overturned her into the water.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“Maybe she wants someone to teach her how to be a human the correct way, the way she never learned. Someone to wake her up and tell her what to eat, what to dream about, what to cry about, who to pray to. Because Cora somehow feels that every choice she’s made has been wrong, that every choice she will ever make will lead her deeper and deeper into a life that feels like a dark, airless box, and when she peers through the slats in the wood she’ll see the pale light of who she might have been, so bright that it blinds her.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“Cora wonders at what point a person stops being one singular person and becomes a collection of parts.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“It’s not about my gods or your Auntie Lois’s God being the right one. There are thousands of gods that open thousands of doors to anyone who knocks. It’s about deciding which doors you want to open.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“A secret part of Cora likes the end of the world because it makes her strangeness feel quieter.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
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