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These Catch girls are exactly the type who would have bullied her back then: effortlessly pretty, relentlessly chatty, and frankly not very bright. But when they’re on the show she produces, Casey becomes their queen bee—and she loves it. She holds the keys to their futures now.
Even tyrants—and Casey can admit she is one—like to be liked. Their forced kindness makes her feel like the girl with glasses who gets made over in a rom-com, but without the anxiety of actually having to get a makeover.
The word random, Casey knows by now, is just hot-girl code for actually having a personality.
when you grow up in an emotionally repressed upper-middle-class household, it’s invigorating to hear grown women drop any pretense of politeness and go at each other.
She gets some sick pleasure out of running her own reality show fiefdom, and her niceness is all surface, sickly sweet fondant slathered over frozen wedding cake.
The crisis has become its own sort of calm.
Casey thought they looked like a psychotic book club or something—like women in their forties, fifties, and beyond who maybe got sick of reading about murders and decided to start committing them instead.
“I saw something here that made me realize that beauty—true beauty—exists on a plane apart from life or death or anything else I used to think was so important. That kind of beauty is here. On Otters Island.
It can’t be a person and yet, the closer it gets, the more it looks like a person, albeit an enormous one,
Renee doesn’t know what she’s going to see except that it’s something she has never seen before. Maybe the last thing she ever sees, but at this point, she would welcome an end to all this so long as it was different. New.
He has carried himself this entire season like God’s gift to womankind—and now Jeremy is Renee’s gift to Her. The ape woman’s fist pounds Jeremy’s skull over and over, bone crunching under the blows. The man’s cries, wet and ragged, grow weaker until they stop.
In the grand balance of things, the world can afford to lose them more than it can afford to lose this rare and wondrous being. How dare Jeremy attack her—and for what? To feel like a big man? What an affront. Imagine a world so small that your ego can fill all of it.
She was ready for an end, an abyss. She wasn’t expecting to find this magnificent being, waiting for her on the other side of the darkness. There is a brutal majesty to her, a concreteness, a reassuring physicality. She is a vision of life differently ordered.
“She wants companionship, same as you or I, she just has a funny way of going about getting it—and she gets grumpy if it’s been too long since she’s made new friends.”
