zoe olesker’s Reviews > Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng > Status Update

“cora has always kept that kind of unwavering trust reserved for only one person. delilah has always been cora’s god. […] even now, with delilah dragged down to some sort of hell, or purgatory, cora is still following her.”

“cora sees something she’s not supposed to see.”

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“i am staring into hell.”

“sometimes her mind lies to her”

“all cora can do is watch other people die.”

“this is when she dies.”

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“i don’t want to die here.”

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“one moment she’ll be everything all at once, the next she’ll be in pieces too small to be human, not even worth saving.”

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“you don’t have to know someone to mourn them.”

“she feels like her turn is coming soon.”

“i guess we’re ghostbusters now.”

“who cares if another chinese girl is dead — they’ll hear me screaming and just put in their headphones and keep walking. even now, you want to walk away from us because it’s gross, because blood and guts make you uncomfortable. but it doesn’t matter if we’re uncomfortable — we don’t get to look away. we’re dying and no one can hear us.”

“‘we can’t just look for white men. you should have looked harder,’ they said. but white men are going after asian girls, and that’s all they have to go on, us being asian. no one wants to look harder at us. to imagine that we’re real people. every day i clean up their brains and blood and i know that a white man coming for me isn’t an if, it’s a when.”

“she has always been a white rabbit ready to dart away.”

i am FREAKED.