Sonja

“I feel as if I could touch the sky. Run my jeweled claws across the clouds and make the sky bleed red starlight.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Female fireflies draw in strange males with dishonest signals and eat them; mantis females devour their own mates. Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Laurie had grown up learning how to love her. It was the only lesson he was ever any good at, because Jo herself had taught him, even if she hadn’t known she was doing it. She had made him.”
― Margaret Stohl, Jo & Laurie

“I’d envied Iri my whole life for his open heart, and now mine had been pried open too.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep