Savannah

“Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us in seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I am both wound and knife”—that is our absolute, our eternity.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

“If I let him do this to me, what else will I allow? Anything, anything, anything.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“There is something grotesque in having my own evils save my life.”
― Sophocles, Elektra