Reese

“His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“It seems that Clytemnestra seals her own fate when she values her daughter’s life equally to the life of a king.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“This is the nature of time — it dilates during suffering and also during joy, rushes through our fingers into the sea when we seek to hold it tight; when we are depressed, the hours open up indefinitely as we are condemned to endure yet another day of consciousness, and then, and then, we look up and realize that we have lost weeks, months, even years to the sticky-fingered destroyer of joy, never to be regained.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories

“For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths