Lesya

“Unexpectedly, this did not kill her; and what did not kill her made her curious.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“I just want to do the whole thing right. I want to take it seriously."

"But do you—I mean—do you really believe it?"

Virginia snorts. "That's not the right framework," she says. "Believing is all about feeling," she says at last. "Affirming is about deciding. There's a difference.”
― Tara Isabella Burton, The World Cannot Give

“Hideous, she thinks suddenly, joyfully. Hideous.

She slices into the crease. She watches, transfixed, as the blood appears. She presses her hand, still trembling, to the wall; she imagines the stone sucking it in, with the moss and the mildew; she imagines it traveling, through the rock and the earth, straight into Sebastian Webster's bones.”
― Tara Isabella Burton, The World Cannot Give