❁ maggie ❁

“What I felt for Agnes was right and true, yes, but it was not selfless. Perhaps love never is.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“By the time you’re done with him, he’ll be begging for mercy. Who is he if he can’t control you? Is he even a man anymore? It will seem like a relief when you give him a hand, even if that hand is holding a blade. And when you take everything from him, you can say what these men say about us: He was asking for it. He was begging for it. He must have wanted it, since he didn’t fight back.”
― Monika Kim, The Eyes Are the Best Part

“Cooper, how do you do this work when your heart feels so heavy?”
― Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

“You had everything that mattered, but you could never believe it. He loved you, and you loved him. But you had to cling to this path that you thought was your fate. You killed him, even though it didn’t mean anything at all. It wasn’t fate that cursed you, General. It was you. How you scorned me for being so afraid! And yet you were the one who was too afraid to be yourself, and to claim what was given to you.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World