Sophie

“Did you enjoy it?" she asked. Her eyes were innocent, as was her tone of voice, but I squirmed regardless. You didn't just come out and admit to liking a book that spent ten pages comparing cunnilingus to a girl eating honeycomb by a summer stream.

"It was compelling," I managed.”
― Anna Burke, In the Roses of Pieria: Library Edition

“I just told you how I feel about dying with unanswered questions."
"Then live.”
― Anna Burke, In the Roses of Pieria: Library Edition

“I learned how to survive in the cutthroat world of girl-hood, where are all strangeness was unrooted as ruthlessly as weeds from a garden. I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. I remade myself into Laura the saint, Laura who is reliable and dependable, if a little boring.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“If only we could all stand up. All of us who have died unjustly for the Gods of the insane. There would be so many of us.”
― Adam Nevill