Marloes

“I realized,” she said, after a period of silence, “that she had been spoon-fed a story from the day she was born. She had been taught no other way to be. And yet, I saw that despite everything, some part of her was self-made. This part, small as it appeared at first, was forged in the fire of her own strength, and resisted her cage. And I understood... that this part was made of steel. This part was who she truly was.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Men can be such beautiful trash,”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“It is not all that I wanted. But it is not nothing either.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm