Marissa Marchant

“She was both proud of the fact that she had raised a strong-minded daughter and resentful of my sharp opinions.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Death still exists; what has disappeared is the certainty that everything will eventually end sooner or later. There's time to shave your head, time to let the gray hairs grow, time to get pregnant, to torture, to be the world champion, and to rewrite the encyclopedia. With patience, a single person could build the pyramids; with perseverance, another single person could knock them down. I guess destruction is another form of love.”
― Martín Felipe Castagnet, Los cuerpos del verano

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Ali Smith, Winter