anna

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I don’t want people to be worried about me. There’s nothing to worry about. I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don’t understand yet. I don’t want people to interfere. I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“My arrogance knows no bounds
And I will make no peace today
And you shall be so lucky
To find a woman like me


Today neither will the East claim me
nor the West admit me
Today my belly is a well
wherein serpents are coiled
ready to poison the world,
and you should be so lucky.


All I have is my arrogance
I will teach it to lean back
and smoke a cigarette in your faces,
and you should be so lucky


No I will make no peace
even though my hands are empty
I will talk as big as I please
I will be all or nothing
And I will jump before the heavy trucks
And I will saw off my leg at the thigh
before I bend one womanly knee


I am poison
And you will drink me
And you should be so lucky.”
― Mohja Kahf

“How sad. A leader bereft of followers. An angel with severed wings. A warrior without a sword.” Beliel circles Raffe like a shark as he taunts him. “You have nothing left."

"He has me," I say.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall