Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab

Nothing fits, even if it’s fitted, because it’s not really about the size of the body or how it fills the clothes, but how much space it takes up in the world.

Alice likes games, because games come with rules, and it’s easier to be bold when there are boundaries, edges, and ends).

Silence is a kind of wealth, she thinks, taking up a pear.