Briana

“There was no need for this girl to scream. Everyone who looked on could imagine her pain. The pain is the protest.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

“But it only takes a crack in the foundation of the world to bring careful architecture, strong with centuries, crumbling down. A small blade cuts the water and ripples outward like an echo. And then the world beneath shows itself, first as green shoots in the dirt. And then comes a woman, a witch, tearing her way through the green with her teeth.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

“I furl myself in the quilt like an oyster in its shell with no pearl to show for the grit that works through it.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“If she were a man, he would not ask her this. For men there is no debt of blood which goes unpaid. If the world tips in another's favor, it must be made to tip back again. But the world is never in a woman's favor. She cannot tip the scale. The only choice is: live the same mute, unjust life you have always lived, or tear apart the world itself.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth