Quote by Stephanie Skeem

“I had to be careful. Nothing from the Otherworld was benign, especially something in packaging this attractive.”

— Mary Lindsey

“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler…

— Catherine Lacey

“I felt frighteningly unbridled.”

— Amy Carol Reeves

“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

— Sarah Dessen

“I felt safe. It was as if the essence of grandmotherliness had been condensed into that one place, that one time.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...”

— John Geddes

“I always felt that there was something different about me but I did not know what it was. I was socially awkward, friendship was…

— Stephen J. Bedard

“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed alive and…

— Olivia Sudjic

“It was a comfortable, familiar apocalypse,”

— Adrian Barnes

“And so we were friends of a sort once more. We began to talk, stiltedly at first, but then with more ease. We had,…

— Elizabeth Newark

“ Safe. What a novel word. It goes hand in hand with normal. Neither of which has had a place in my life for…

— Tara Spears

“Circumstances might be hard enough that maybe you need to find the little comforts, even if they aren’t good for you.”

— wildbow