Daisy Everard

“Persephone believed that feelings were, in themselves, neither positive nor negative - it was a matter of balance and what use feelings were put to in one's dealings with the world. She thought of the First World War dolls, courage was a supposedly positive attribute, but these dolls had helped send boys as young as 14 to their deaths. And from personal experience for And Persephone knew that a demand to be happy could be a effacing, even brutal, when you had cause for discontent.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“I like meeting new people as it means every day is a new opportunity to redeem yourself, to make a fresh start at being seen as a normal woman and practice at it. It's when people get to know you that they realise something seriously off and that's harder to rectify”
― Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those that speak it, not those that it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“He wonders how much a man's life is the story he tells himself about himself”
― Andrew Miller, Pure