“If not dissuaded, they will get to the innermost nucleus of the antarctic and melt and bore till they bring up that which may end the world we know. So I must break through all reticences at last - even about that ultimate nameless thing beyond the mountains of madness.”
― At the Mountains of Madness
― At the Mountains of Madness
“Grey was lightning, Vivi was thunder and I was the sea in the tempest.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“There's a choice, when you know your fate's to be hunted and gobbled up and used.
You can give in like it's inevitable or you can turn the tables.
I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”
― The Girls I've Been
You can give in like it's inevitable or you can turn the tables.
I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”
― The Girls I've Been
“I see the steel wrapped in fear that all little girls find on the spike-strewn road to womanhood.”
― The Girls I've Been
― The Girls I've Been
“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― The Girls I've Been
― The Girls I've Been
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