Léa

“But he decided to back down, knowing there are battles you fall on your sword over, others where you withdraw.”
― Jerry J.K. Rogers, The Fallen and the Elect: Book I - The Eulogy of Angels

“I suppose you’re wondering what happened to the mirror,’ he said. ‘Well …’ ‘I smashed it. Last week. With the frying-pan.’ ‘Oh,’ she said. ‘I got tired of being afraid I’d walk in there some morning and wouldn’t be able to see my own reflection in it. So I went and grabbed the frying-pan out of the kitchen and gave it a whack.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“Especially Trevor, subconsciously he thinks he’s my mother; it’s rather hard on him. It doesn’t bother me that much, I’m used to it, I’ve been running away from understudy mothers ever since I can remember, there’s a whole herd of them behind me trying to catch up and rescue me, god knows what from, and give me warmth and comfort and nourishment and make me quit smoking, that’s what you get for being an orphan.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“That’s the nice thing about me. I’m very flexible, I’m the universal substitute.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman