Meredith

“How horrifying. Is there anything more dangerous to a woman than to be beautiful when weeping?”
― Johanna van Veen, Blood on Her Tongue

“Sometimes it seemed like the only thing I’d ever been good at was surviving being broken. I didn’t know how to be whole. So any time I felt like I was healing, I found a way to break myself again.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

“A lifetime thus far of being alone. Of knowing I would be alone, forever. To stand in a full room and know oneself to be apart, that invisible barrier between you and them to be in every way uncrossable. To find the will to exist in a world so wholly unsuited for you.”
― CJ Leede, Maeve Fly

“Do you understand the world I lived in? How my mutilations were a gift?”
― Jade Song, Chlorine