Liz

“It is romantic to be cursed, to feel like the world has it out for you. That there is a deity bored enough to disrupt your ecstasy.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“And as she did, she told her daughter what it meant to be a wife. Gentle. Loving. Obedient. Words that made María tense. And, as if her mother could feel her stiffening, she leaned close and said, “You will learn, it is better to bend than to break.” María stared into the hearth. “Why should I be the one who bends?”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“You’ve got that look about you.” “What look?” “Well, not to be rude, but you’re all fucked up, aren’t you?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Everyone knew that the nicer a library was, the better the work you did within it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis