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“Seriously?” Jules said. They sighed with melodramatic disappointment. “We find a wrinkle in time and you tell the manager?”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“She’d lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she’d accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“In my head, I think I’m often telling Miri stories, logging away information or things I’ve seen in order to tell her about them later.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“We didn’t make separate boxes for each of us because, in our heads, our lives would be intertwined for eternity as best friends forever, so what was the point?”
― Morgan Elizabeth, The Playlist

“Because the right place to start when having a mental breakdown is with a killer fucking playlist.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, The Playlist

“The idea that someone is so crazy for you they want to drop everything and dance in the parking lot or kiss in the rain. I was raised on The Notebook and fairy tales and Taylor Swift. It’s hard not to idealize dumb things, I guess.”
― Morgan Elizabeth, The Playlist

“Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And not all strength is physical, Violet.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.’ ”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“His calm acceptance of her anxiety had the exact opposite effect of Dr. Aslan’s enthusiasm: it relaxed her.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Sloane paused in her pacing. “4558. April fifth, 1958. It was a Saturday.” I could see her searching through her encyclopedic store of knowledge”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“She has obsessive tendencies under the best of circumstances.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“We arrived home to find Sloane in the kitchen, cuddling a blowtorch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“There is no possible way this could go badly, especially if you start issuing orders. Heaven knows people who’ve spent their lives as punching bags do best when they have absolutely no control over a situation and someone else dominates them completely.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“I am so busy. I am practicing
my new hobby of watching me
become someone else. There is
so much violence in reconstruction.
Every minute is grisly, but I have
to participate. I am building
what I cannot break.”
― Jennifer Willoughby, Beautiful Zero: Poems

“I didn’t yet know who I was, but I saw the opportunity to become a certain kind of woman. Harm swayed toward me. I responded with something else.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Against all logic, I perceived touch from a burned hand as a form of greatness. I hope to make a mistake like that again someday.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I refuse to believe one thing leads to another, which is to say I don’t believe in logic, not all the time—not the way this world rotates and orbits. I feel slower than it, too poor to live in it; I want to sleep until I’m someone else.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Waiting is an enchantment: I have received orders not to move. —ROLAND BARTHES, A Lover’s Discourse”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Old letters are not proof of love, but they are proof that we were aimed at, even reached for. * * * He said, Everyone just wants to be looked at, and turned away from me to face the window. * * * It took me years to realize silence could be an insult and was actually the worst insult. No one I’d loved had inflicted it on me.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“The day I decided I was more miserable than ever, my boss said, You know what I like about you, Chelsea? Nothing is ever wrong.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“simply being near her made me bold. When it rained, she’d stand in the backyard and hold her arms out and face the sky—that’s how alive she was. I loved her dirty Vans and her academic probation and the way everyone cheered like in a sitcom when she once rode her bike straight into the living room of a house party. I can’t bear to think of her now, out in the world, getting older like a human.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I have nothing but fondness and affection for you, I said, halfway out the door.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Bianca had the kind of knowledge other girls could sense in her right away—it was as if she had already lived her adult life and had come back to her thirteen-year-old body to tell us about it.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“One of us had a beautiful voice, the other had a bonfire memory, and we rearranged ourselves until we forgot who was who.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Isn’t it remarkable the way knowing one person can alter a life? If you’re really lucky, you’ll find someone who reminds you of yourself. Not the version everyone knows, but the part of yourself you thought you kept hidden: now you see it in him.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“In this perfect timepiece that is the universe, everything has a reason for being.”
― Sara Mesa, Scar

“I don’t have a job, that’s correct. I’m devoted to acquiring things and contemplating the universe, which is not a small task.”
― Sara Mesa, Scar

“was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You