Lilly Summer

“When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“A woman's first blood doesn't come from between her legs but from biting her tongue.”
― Meggie C. Royer, The No You Never Listened To

“What you don’t understand,” she said to me once when I told her how dangerous it was, “is that I am the thing in the dark.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow