Cassandra

“If every woman she has ever been were given a name, would there be a Midwestern Girl at all?”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“He'd turned his head so he was looking at her, and for a moment there'd been something in his eyes that almost took her breath away. It had felt like...but she didn't even want to put words to it, the way you weren't supposed to speak a birthday wish aloud.”
― Alicia Thompson, With Love, from Cold World

“But he was also shaken by how quickly she'd folded, the blink-and-you'll-miss-it transition she'd made from supposedly being in love with him to telling him goodbye.”
― Alicia Thompson, With Love, from Cold World

“Blond hair was for toddlers with rosy cheeks, not tall, broad-chested men with unidentifiable accents who made Hazel's mouth go dry when they stepped closer to her.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story