Hali

“They came here, desperate, lured by the promise of finally winning something, set up to be devoured so people who already had everything would continue having exactly what they already had, what they could have had anyway, what they felt was their due.”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“I feel exhausted, a feeling of catching up, a feeling of something finding me. My heart is a thin thing, these days—shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Hob is used to this and waited with the stoic air of a martyr undergoing torture.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead