Vienna

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“He wished he loved her a little more or hated her a little less, something to tip the scale. Instead, he lived in the fraught balance between the two, each increasing the intensity of the other....”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“It doesn’t take much to save a childhood.” A little kindness, some understanding or validation: someone to recognize and acknowledge a child’s reality—and save his sanity.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“That was the thing about New York, Cleo thought as they walked toward the buses. It never knew what you wanted, so it offered you everything.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein