Ash

“Strong to my enemies, tender to those I loved and respected. That's what I wanted to be. Soon I would have to put these abilities to the test. But for the moment, I was happy.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“A poet is someone who stands on the door sill and sees the room before her as a sea whose waves she might dive through. … A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

“If human testimony, taken with every care and solemnity, judicially, before commissions innumerable, each consisting of many members, all chosen for integrity and intelligence, and constituting reports more voluminous perhaps than exist upon any one other class of cases, is worth anything, it is difficult to deny, or even to doubt the existence of such a phenomenon as the Vampire.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths