Mathilde Paulsen

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“One day," Rolfe said, too quietly, "someone's really going to make you pay for that arrogance. I just hope I'm there to see it.”
― Sara J. Maas

“No. You surpass us all." Beside me she looked colorless and frail. "You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe