Kat

“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

“The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”
― 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

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