Corinne B

“Love...also taught me that loss is a thing that builds around you. That what feels like safety is often just absence of current harm, and those two things are not the same.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“We girls. Afraid of the wrong things, at the wrong times. Afraid of a burned face, when outside, outside waiting for you are fires you cannot imagine. Men, holding matches up to your gasoline eyes. Flames, flames all around you, licking at your just-born breasts, your just-bled body. And infernos. Infernos as wide as the world. Waiting to impoverish you, make you ash, and even the wind, even the wind. Even the wind, my dear, she thought, watching you burn, willing it, passing over you, and through you. Scattering you, because you are a girl, and because you are ash.”
― Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter

“What is love if not a hunger?”
― Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter

“We have prayer enough to light up the whole universe, like a thousand stars breathing life into our deepest fears.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir