Lilly Summer

“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

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

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

“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