Kiri

“My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I’m trying to be nice because I’m transcending, but I really don’t fuck with you. Get it?”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black: Stories