“For years, Dora had not bothered to wonder why it was she had been singled out – why she had been cursed instead of anyone else in the world. It had always seemed irrelevant, insubstantial, irreversible. But today, she felt the unfairness of it all like a corset laced too tightly.”

“For years, Dora had not bothered to wonder why it was she had been singled out – why she had been cursed instead of anyone else in the world. It had always seemed irrelevant, insubstantial, irreversible. But today, she felt the unfairness of it all like a corset laced too tightly.”

— Olivia Atwater