An Solano

“What you have to understand,” she says, “is that things can thrive in unimaginable conditions. All they need is the right sort of skin.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Death by Dildo.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

“even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame