Leda

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

“She was moved by the tenderness of the experience, spellbound even by the soft sounds of his clothing, the articles touching him with such intimacy she feared she'd never know. She envied his sweater, molded lightly to the shape of his broad back. His trousers, cladding his long legs, strained at his thighs. His arms were thick with muscle, legible through the dark cashmere, tensing and releasing as he slid a gentle hand under the apothocarist's spine.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“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

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