Fanny

“God doesn’t love, men murder, and nature rains clean water down on the bloodied bodies, the sun bleaches their bones, a tree drops its leaves onto the unrecognizable face of someone’s daughter, the earth sprouts glorious sunflowers that feed on the purple flesh of disappeared women.”
― María Fernanda Ampuero, Human Sacrifices

“So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing. The specific form of what is considered an “ordinary person” had been there all along, unchanged since prehistoric times I finally realized.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles