Bianca

“I was determined to be both pretty and fierce, as Mother had said I could be. Just because I was interested in a man’s job didn’t mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles