Veronica

“To Ammu, her twins seemed like a pair of small bewildered frogs engrossed in each other's company, lolloping arm in arm down a highway full of hurtling traffic.

Entirely oblivious of what trucks can do to frogs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The meanest hound dog you'll ever meet
He ain't the hound dog in the street
He bears some teeth and tears some skin
But brother that's the worst of him
The one you really gotta dread
Is the one that howls inside your head”
― Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown

“A pause so pregnant it delivers, consumes its own spawn, then grows big with child again.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny