Eva

“Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“(and what are we all but information in peculiar packaging?)”
― Iain Pears, Arcadia

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle