Toxin

“I am not made for this, but Cora is. She skips lightly from stone to stone, vivacious and bright and so unencumbered. Jealousy is not an emotion I have easily tolerated in myself before, but it spills out now, raw and vicious, a blade turned against my own heart. I am jealous of Cora's passion and carelessness, but most of all I am jealous that she can experience all these things at an age when I held myself under such rigid control, when I was a creature made only from fear and survival. I am jealous that anybody has the gift of growing up differently.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“What a strange, cruel gift she has given me: to truly know myself, to know pleasure, to know freedom - and to wake and find myself in Hell.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“Every day I drink Coca-Cola and write ad copy.
I'm in the business of multiplying needs.

Today, it's whitening face lotion, whitening foam wash, whitening sunscreen.
Across the seas, the copy can only read brightening.

But here, things blanch.”
― Jenny Xie

“I got better without ever quite getting well.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down