Sarah A-F

“I'd owned enough New Age tchotchkes in my lifetime to know that within a few days of purchase they just seemed like more crap. But as you were shopping, sifting through the stones and their meanings, there was hope that this was a turning point. It was the velocity of buying something that was the high, the potentiality of it. I could capitalist-believe in magic.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“My neurons number half a billion, and they are distributed among my eight arms. On occasion, I have wondered whether I might have more intelligence in a single tentacle than a human does in its entire skull.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“A country cannot be free if its women are not.”
― Hadeer Elsbai, The Daughters of Izdihar

“I don’t know that we are ever really okay in life, but there are times when we feel closer to it -- when we don’t remember what it feels like to suffer.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces