Especially Heinous Quotes

“If this child is part of The Plan, then The Plan was that I would be raped. If this child is not part of The Plan, then my rape was a violation of The Plan, in which case The Plan is not a Plan at all, but a Polite fucking Suggestion”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“BAD BLOOD": Stabler and Benson will never forget the case where solving the crime was so much worse than the crime itself.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Sometimes I wonder if the bars make the monsters and not the other way around.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“He wishes they were still floating safely in the unborn space, which he imagines to be grayish-blue, like the Atlantic, studded with star-like points of light, and thick as corn syrup.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories