Ayla Revé

“I feel the vastness at my back like a loving nightmare, tendrils of it wrapping around my ankles and throat until I’m inevitably lost to it. I keep imagining the cosmos wrenching me off the ship, dragging me deep into itself, and I am a prisoner there forever, eyes wide, my screams soundless in the vacuum.”
― Meg Smitherman, Thrum

“I’m both adrift and trapped like a rabbit by a fox. And he is the fox, shadowed in dusk.”
― Meg Smitherman, Thrum

“He wants to keep me here, he wants all of me, my body, my mind, my soul. He wants to hurt me, to own me.”
― Meg Smitherman, Thrum

“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women