Penny

“Perhaps I could only appreciate every brushstroke of death once I was the canvas.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Calla is a woman in the same way that the sky is blue. She understands that it’s the easiest identifier to slap on and she doesn’t mind it, but in actuality, the sky is an incomprehensible void, and Calla, too, feels closer to a nebulous,”
― Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings

“I think,” I say carefully, “the only love you can count on is the way you love yourself.”
― Emily McIntire, Wretched

“And if she never returned to who she had been before this, he would not love her any less.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash