Kat

“My father, of course, believed in miracles; what gambler does not?”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“Wake up. It is morning. Have a cup of coffee. Watch the sun come up. Feel as if you are the only person in the whole world seeing it. Know that it was always true that you were the only one seeing the world the way you were seeing the world. Give thanks to the rising sun. Give thanks to the day that was every day, was the sun itself making everything seen and was called the day as a nickname for the big light the sun was sending the world before it took it away.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“He told me she was known to be erratic and insane, but he was the only person I’d heard that from. To me, she appeared sweet, and delicate. She spoke in a soft voice and tucked her fluffy blond hair behind her ears a lot. I have no idea what the truth of what happened between them was, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire, as the saying goes, and some days as I cooked him eggs in our heavy cast-iron griddle I felt as if I was betraying every woman who ever lived.”
― Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story

“Something had deepened in me. An emptiness that blew me up like a balloon with its nothingness, and floated me off to that non-place in the gray.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars