Tasha

“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“you only know something once you’ve experienced it in your life, life is our greatest test.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

“He'd been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures

“You admit to her that you are constantly nursing low-grade crushes on many people in your life. Nothing acted on, just that you find many people attractive and do your best to surround yourself with smart, funny minds, and the result is a gooey, lovely space somewhere between philia and eros.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House