Megan Davis

“He made me feel like someone somebody would risk something to choose.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“Where does repressed pain and rage go in a body? Does the wound of daughter turn to something else if left unattended? Does it bloom in the belly like an anti-child, like an organic mass made of emotions that didn’t have anywhere to go? How do we name the pain of rage in a woman? Mother?”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I groped at the air with my hands. “I’m just some dumpy chick who works in a bookshop, Carey, you could have rung and broke it off with me without it becoming the dance of the seven veils.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident