Cecilia

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning