Laurel

“I hated her because I did not understand what it was that I had lost before I saw it in her.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“To what and to whom are you committed? What do you long for? And what is worth traveling through the unknown to reach?”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

“I made a bargain in my youth, for safety, for survival, and it has all been for naught. I am not safe. I have never been safe.

So why have I tried so hard to create it? All I have made is a prison.

But perhaps if I have never been safe, that means fear has no purpose.

I am not safe if I obey and reduce and control, just as I am not safe if I rebel and shout and anger.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“Before, I stood on the banister of the balcony above the dining hall and thought the solution to the burden of myself was to end it all. How foolish that seems now. How futile. I could go, and no one would care.
How much better to make them all regret knowing me.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone