Vanessa

“Sometimes it’s as if I’m composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“You’re only boobs, hair, and talk, Crown,” said the guard.

“No,” said Crown. “I’m boobs and hair and talk and a hell of a sword hand.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“If there ever comes a day when anyone gets what they deserve…then I would still get you, and you would still get me”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes

“She had held a pear in her hand and she had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw. She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep