Vanessa

“Because the world beats you up and calls it loving. It takes and we give and we keep on giving until everything inside us belongs to this thing that will never give back, long after it's left us.”
― Corey Liu, He's So Possessed with Me

“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

“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

“She belonged to the house in the sense that she had nothing else, no other life than the house, but the house, by itself, did not belong to her.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep