Mehayla

“We talk about love like it's an involuntary act. We fall into love, like a hole, a puddle, an elevator shaft. We never step mindfully into love. Love we seem to think, requires a loss of control; love necessitates that vertiginous giving over to gravity; love wants you to have no choice.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“It's not like this with other people... Well, I like you a lot more than other people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Judges and juries are notoriously brutal on violent female offenders, a category to which I belong without question. Nature abhors a vacuum; jurisprudence hates a violent woman. We can forgive any number of men murdering their wives and girlfriends. But we have a hard time extending the same compassion to women who kill their husbands and boyfriends, even though women have many more reasons to be driven to it. Culture refuses to see violence in women, and the law nurtures a special loathing for violent women.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“After sixty-odd years together with the hunters, we discovered something. It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for." I frowned. That was a very ungodly way of thinking - as if you could have immortality or meaning, but not both.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy