Mathilda

“Psychiatry is one of the patriarchy’s favored tools to control women.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“A spark embedded in a body meant for the use of others, shining for no one in the dark.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow

“A broken tool myself, I live in a house full of unread books and broken tools, the irreparable detritus of a dead empire. I am the last Roman, the emperor of junk.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow

“... if he climbs just a little higher, he can escape, he can sail away and never come back. He can be Sparrow for ever. But of course, he's forgotten about the string, the one they tied around his leg. He's pulled it as taut as he can, higher and higher, further and further away from the city below, but he can never pull it far enough. He can never pull it until it breaks.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow