“She knew she had to teach them how to love themselves, that this was the only way they had a chance at happiness. Only she didn't see how she could when the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces. She wanted to save her daughters from her fate, but she couldn't seem to find a way out.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
“No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me”
― Shadow Princess
― Shadow Princess
“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“She lived in the aftermath of every battle, breathed in the devastation until she was drowning in it. Nothing and no one would ever convince her that anything noble or purifying could come from this scale of suffering. That any rewards could ever be worth it.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
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