Sara Jesus

“She had held a pear in her hand and she had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw. She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“How strange can the body be. I do not know it, never know what it wants. Does anyone know their body, truly? I wonder.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Well—I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning