Calista

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”
― Warsan Shire

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing