Hannah Showalter

“I worry that I am a shell for something bad. That deep down, in the spot where most people keep their souls, I keep a weird little bug. I picture him there, leaning on the apple core of my soul, crunching on what remains of what’s good of me.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so deeply I think if I cracked myself open, I would see the physical manifestation of it calcified in my bones like a geode.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“I want to linger here in the in-between, half-made, in some permanent adolescence, forever. I don't ever want to become my full self.”
― Emily Austin, Interesting Facts About Space