Maddie

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She was desperate,
she was deathless. I’d have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I’d have
thrown myself to the wild for her.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

“i dream nights and
girls like tigers,
claws and teeth on both.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

“Walking past all the cops, all the detectives, I raise my runner’s shirt a few inches, like I’m shaking it loose form my damp skin. I let them all see my stomach, its tautness. I let everyone see I’m not afraid, and that I’m not anything but a silly cheerleader, a feather-bodied sixteen-year-old with no more sense than a marshmellow peep. I let them see I’m not anything. least of all what I am.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me