Lilith

“To feed her is one thing,” she said. “To dine with her suggests that you consider her your equal. But she isn’t.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“And the idea that anything could just disappear at any moment is something you suddenly understand in a whole new way.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger