sums

“I know exactly why Icarus flew so high: when you’ve spent too long in the dark, you’ll melt your own wings just to feel the sun on your skin.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“Wondering what it meant to be was not in the purview of a construct whose entire purpose revolved around its rules, and those rules did not allow for the consideration of self.

But it's considering it now.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, The Blighted Stars

“You don't have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“It was like the ardour of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla