Toxin

“I am not safe if I obey and reduce and control, just as I am not safe if I rebel and shout and anger.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“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

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

“I am a drowning woman clinging to a wreckage, but I will sing so loud as I go down.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone