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"I don't know what happens if I go too long without feeding, and I still don't. Every time I try, I wake up with my mouth around someone's neck, and it's never who I would have wanted for this, it's always the worst person it can be. I had never before been glad my wives and children were already in the Sandhills, but I was then. Because I would still be sneaking in to watch them, I knew, and watch over them. Meaning my feet and my nose would remember where they were, and then one morning Sun Chief would find me holding my son in my arms, drinking him dry, and I wouldn't be able to stop, even though his blood would be crying back out my eyes, and my heart would already be on the ground." - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

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"His hands came up and held my wrist that was holding the other side of his neck, and it was the same way my daughter had used to hold on to me when I carried her, but I kept drinking, couldn't stop." - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

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Lines from Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting (a book which I am very pleased to read after previously scouring the land for the seven deaths of a saint)

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"Kissing Big Swiss 's teeth was jarring and humiliating, like kissing a bathroom sink. But maybe that was too unkind. It was like kissing a baptismal font full of holy water."

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

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"Almost any time somebody gets me a present, it ends up making me sad."

Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

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I'm impressed, despite my still-racing heartbeat. How does he do it? How does this boy navigate my emotions like a seasoned sailor, finding the clear skies and bringing them closer, when all I seem able to do is hold fast to the storms?

- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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"His feet had blackened in the fire but would heal, his lungs had smoked down but they would come with each breath he took. What was important was that now he had the wisest of birds to whisper to him for his whole life. Every time he needed direction, all he would have to do was ask. I miss that. All I have now is the Cat Man, buried inside me. And he only ever tells me one thing." - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

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"Many took it and said they no longer felt depressed, but many also said that they no longer felt like themselves." - Dhruv Khullar for the New Yorker's February 16th & 23rd issue in the article titled 'Medical Dispatch: In Search of a Fix' with the subheading "What Ozempic reveals about the science of addiction."