Janine

“exotrophia: one eye looked ahead normally, while the other pointed outward.”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

“We teach brilliance bias to children from an early age. A recent US study found that when girls start primary school at the age of five, they are as likely as five-year-old boys to think women could be 'really really smart'. But by the time they turn six, something changes. They start doubting their gender. So much so, in fact, that they start limiting themselves: if a game is presented to them as intended for 'children who are really, really smart', five-year-old girls are as likely to want to play it as boys - but six-year-old girls are suddenly uninterested. Schools are teaching little girls that brilliance doesn't belong to them. No wonder that by the time they're filling out university evaluation forms, students are primed to see their female teachers as less qualified.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The most vile and wicked souls are painted red," he informed me. I wasn't sure if he was joking. "Though, some would say green is just as bad," he added a moment later, and I grunted.

"What's your favourite colour then?" I tried?

He thought about it, but not for long.

"Black."

Of course.”
― Jennifer Kropf, A Soul as Cold as Frost

“large lack dogs can be a dark omen, did you know that? they foretell death, just like banshees do, and they follow you, and if you but look at them in the eye you are condemned.
still i´d rather see a dog when the time comes. the soft fur and the glassy eyes and the friendly bark of a playful hound, to take me gently to the realms of heaven.”
― Oscar de Muriel, A Mask of Shadows