Leda

“My world is made of paper. The smell of ink soothes me more than the scent of flowers.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“I looked up then, searched the sky. When I found the moon, I found God, when I saw the stars, I saw God, when I let myself be inhaled by the vast, expanding universe, I understood God the way Seneca once did– God is everything one sees and everything one does not see.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“Her beauty was its own violence”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“Of the blade that had slain that which was unkillable.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath