Maddie

“I wish sometimes I could be less fierce with you. No- I feel sometimes like I ought to want to be less fierce with you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I keep turning away from speaking of your letter. I feel--to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I’m not an animal anymore, sister,” she said, first scanning the empty ward as if about to disclose a momentous secret. “I don’t need to eat, not now. I can live without it. All I need is sunlight.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
― Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War