Johanna

“Murder is man’s attempt to steal birth from women,” she says. “We make children, they kill them. We create life, they create death. It’s the way it’s always been.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“He felt that a slaughterhouse should go unnoticed and blend in with the landscape, that it should never be called what it really is.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“My heart is a thin thing, these days - shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land