e. southgate

“In the dim porchlight, she looks like something out of a poem he read in school before he dropped out.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“She had not been human in that final hour. Just a paper lantern, thin and wind-torn, clinging to the flickering remnants of a soul. Yet when there was no more to climb, and she had looked up and seen nothing but the terrible beauty of the sky, she had found the strength to rise.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House