Kerry

“She would nuzzle him, beginning to understand that just because he didn't see something in her didn't mean it wasn't there, knowing there was still some freedom in the way he did not fathom yet how real and how necessary her ruthlessness would be.”
― Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

“there is no story of this country not founded in forcible vanishings”
― Jamie Hood, How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany

“People in LA were always recommending things that were more about themselves than the recipient. They recommended obsessively⁠—films, Netflix series⁠—as though their association with a piece of media imbued them with sex appeal, intelligence, an irresistible whimsy. When I felt a recommendation coming on, I'd lie and say I'd already seen the thing: just so I didn't have to hear the plot explained. Did anyone genuinely like anything? So much art was bad. I preferred the work of dead people. At least the dead weren't on Twitter.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I liked these echoes of the past, the way a food could rouse a memory from death.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed