Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest Quotes
It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.
She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.
He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.
Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?