Lila

“They say she's a girl like a garden, it said. "All roses and lavender and spider mums. Too bright, too bright to be there. One foot among the dead, one foot among the living, like a little breathing bridge. Oh, how I'd love to see her. What a pretty, pretty sight she must be.”
― Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

“Why are you so beautiful, do you think? So hungry? So able to bend the wills of those around you? You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“I am the thing in the dark.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow