Manu

“I can long for her and still hate her. After all, does a moth not hate a flame when it learns that the very thing that attracts it is the thing that will see it burn?”
― A.B. Poranek, A Treachery of Swans

“She had a warmth, a light, that drew me into her orbit—I was a moth and she a flame, I the tides and she the moon. Whatever we were, she was always, always the light, and I the thing skulking in the dark.”
― A.B. Poranek, A Treachery of Swans

“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis