Kim

“What I mean is, it reminded me of one of the happiest moments of childhood, before broken wrists and purpling bruises and nasty names hissed when my mother’s back was turned. Before “Who do you think you are? You’re ugly. You’re nobody.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us: Special Preview - The First 7 Chapters plus Bonus Material

“A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“When writing fiction, memories still filter in, and these memories twist and distort and transform until they become living, breathing pieces of the story, as they have here.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us: Special Preview - The First 7 Chapters plus Bonus Material