“How can I want something so badly but become so paralyzed every time I think about taking it?”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
― Eliza and Her Monsters
“The fragment was pure white, the edges blunt and worn. "That's what makes the raven. Like they use for roads down in the tidewater area. Oyster shells on bare rock...”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“She drew so many monsters that she became a monster herself.”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
― Eliza and Her Monsters
“It seemed safer to not have friends or hobbies. To sit at work, head down, doing her job, and then sit at home, glass after glass of orange juice, radio on, safe from anything that might disrupt her routine.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think:
I am here. I am okay.”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
I am here. I am okay.”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
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