Mikah Mac

“At dawn, Grace would have woken to a mouthful of fur, the leopard's head resting gigantic on her knee. She would have thought. How gentle, this world. How tender, this mercy.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Her hands are fisted in the collar of his shirt and she is so vital, so furiously alive that Arthur understands for the first time why Hades stole Persephone, why a man who has spent his life in winter might do anything at all for a taste of spring.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they continue.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“dying is the simplest thing in the world. You don’t have to do anything but sit there and take it.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones