thenightitself

“Clap your hands,” Luzia said, surprised at the command in her voice. It had the snap of a whip over a horse’s back. The man’s laugh died on his lips. Who was a peasant to command a person of his stature? And yet, in this room, on this night, he had asked for her to perform, and so her impudence must be permitted. Such was the temporary power of the singer, the actor, the fool.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“We're born, we live, we die, he says and the choices we make in the middle, all those things we agonize over day after day, none of those matter in the end”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“You think you know hardship, but men have a gift for finding new ways to make women suffer.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar