Katie

“This is why I write, I do it for the alchemy. I cannot just experience things. This is how I experience things.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“He was not always like this, she kept telling me. As if that changed anything. This man of rage was all the father I had.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I don’t know her like you do. She said you think of death, and yet she strikes me as someone afraid of dying. She lives as though she’s running out of time. There’s a desperation about her. Even now, when the long shadow of death is gone, she fears it. And you’re the opposite. You fear living. A pity. You’d be so good at it.”
― Rachel Harrison, So Thirsty

“We are so accustomed to seeing this image that we barely notice the cruelty which underpins the story: it’s just a hero and his trophy.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths