16 Quotes by Zan Romanoff

She wanted to be with people who loved what she loved. Who felt that love all through them like fire, like light.

And even if she could sheen and buff and polish her surface, the interior would still be what it’s always been: she would still be her wild, messy, impossible self underneath.

If you’re telling the story, it means you’re still alive. If you’re telling the story, it means you’re still haunted by it too.

That’s when she started lying to her friends about how she spending her time; that was when fandom went from an occasional hobby to a necessary escape hatch.

But Land and Solly-the two of them, together-they were her religion. She performed her acts of worship and accorded them all of her faith. Their love was the first mystery, the one that bound the world together.

The point of fandom was that it was the one place she wasn’t afraid to be anything.

Grace thinks of Persephone and the pomegranate seeds. She took something for herself when Jes offered her that first cigarette, and again with her photographs at Holy Communion. And look at her: she’s ended up staying so much longer than she ever thought she’d be allowed to.