Leda

“I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgement, and its cold, resentful eyes. I saw it all around me.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Take my eyes. Take my hands. Take the breath from my body. Strip the skin from my bones. Were I able to offer you my soul I would; I'd tear it from my flesh this moment and give it to you”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“Without Henry, she was nothing, and the wolves would be waiting to pounce . . .”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession