Minna

“Through it all, she holds eye contact like it's a lifeline, although only the devil dead on his throne knows which one of them needs saving more.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

“Finally, when Maya was so sure that Reyha’s composure is bulletproof, it fissures. It cracks along the bend of her mouth, her forehead. To Maya’s surprise, she experiences no triumph, only an apostate’s abashedness, like she’d defaced a god of small yet precious things.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

“Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning.”
― Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

“The brain, pressed to contain every life experience, knows better than to do so. Instead of retaining every memory, it makes composites, deriving assumptions from repeated examples, and flattens decades into annotated summaries.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World