Penny

“asked softly, but not weakly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

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

“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

“Well, fuck the heavenly order of things. If getting married to a gross old man was her preordained role on this earth, then Rin was determined to rewrite it.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War