Sam Moe

When Pearl took Grace’s hand, she let herself be tugged away, even though Jacob and Victor were likely to have eaten each other alive by the time they got back, or worse, turned into a two-headed centipede she’d need to take care of until the end of time, it didn’t matter, here was a woman who understood hunger.

Rajan Sharma

He wonders how everyone seems to share an instinctive knowledge of the social mummery that eludes him, as if they had imbibed it with their mother’s milk. He can imitate them, wearing a mask, but something about him always gives him away. It makes him feel marooned within himself, an unreachable island surrounded by a vast sea of difference.