Lauren Bachman

“People hate when girls act like they're invincible. Deep down they know how easy it is to take that small power away, how fragile the feeling! How far we fall.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

“Hell’s lonely,” said Peter. “You’ll want company.” “Hell is other people, I’ve heard.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Hold your thoughts at arm's length and just go- empty.
An impossible task. They might as well have asked her to retrieve the moon.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“And if you could constantly reinvent yourself, cut away the parts of you that ashamed or hurt you, then how could you ever come to really know someone else? Were people all just living paradoxes, keeping up an illusion just long enough to survive contact with others? Were people then all a series of lies in the end?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis