Bella

“Darling, you have got it badly!” “I know. It’s awful, isn’t it? This love business gets hold of you and you can’t do anything about it.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Good.” He leans in, dropping his voice, and an electric current charges through me. “I’ve always preferred to have things out in the open. Though the pig farmers of Sunshine Falls might not feel the same way.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Scared of crying. That once I start, I’ll never be able to stop, and everything I’ve built will crumble under the weight of my unruly emotions.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I learn about something called jiangshi, which as far as I can tell is like a zombie, a corpse reanimated by a spell written on a slip of paper. Perhaps someone reanimated Athena. Perhaps I composed the spell myself, when I published her words against her will.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface