Olivia

“Adolescent love is the greatest pain of all. It teaches you the power other people have to destroy you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Portia's lips thinned. "You think that because we're pure evil, we can't love?"
"I think that because you love, you can't be pure evil," Nix countered.”
― Kresley Cole, Munro

“ If I were a man, I would fight him.
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom