Siobhan

“I remembered how she wrote once about when you send someone a letter, how it's out of your hands. It's not yours anymore, even though you wrote it.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“You warned me that knowing your secret would destroy us. At first, it sat in our marriage like a blue- lipped ghost, hardly noticeable until a trick of the light drew it into focus. But you could always tell the days when it gnawed at my thoughts. You tried to comfort me. You stroked my face and curled my fingers to your heart. You said: “If you pry, you’ll destroy our marriage.” But oh, my love, you lied.”
― Roshani Chokshi , The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“You can picture it, can't you? The moment when time caught to us, the slant of light in which the familiar turned strange.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“She should not wear a white garment ever again. At least a dark linen will better hide the blood she sees dripping from her hands, soaking the hem of her dress, and pooling on the floor around her feet.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth