Lavinia Quotes

“We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along.”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Lavinia

“I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin.
"That's where people like YOU belong!" I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. "In the garbage!" - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Lavinia

“Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I lost myself in his eyes that stroked my soul and punctured my heart, like a poison arrow in a shooting star”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Lavinia

“Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through, who she'll be, if given the chance.”
― Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

“What is left after a death? Everything else. The sun a man saw rise goes down though he does not see it set. A woman sits down to the weaving another woman left in the loom.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Of all the greater powers the one I fear the most is the one I cannot worship, the one who walks the boundary, the one who sets the ram on the ewe, and the bull on the heifer, and the sword in the farmer's hand: Mavors, Marmor, Mars.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“It has not been difficult for me to believe in my fictionality, because it is, after all, so slight.”
― Ursula Le Guin;