merce

“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“A body could be labeled but a person couldn’t, and the difference between the two depended on that muscle in your chest. That beloved organ, not sentient, not aware, not feeling, just pumping along, keeping you alive.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Witches are not so delicate.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Oh, all right, I say,
I'll save myself.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems