✥❤️‍ Kayla ❤️‍✥

“I was borne by an impulse so powerful that, had a guard appeared at that moment, even if he were twice my size, I'd have knocked him over and trampled him underfoot; I was possessed by a wild joy that was heedless of all else.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“You looked up and away, as you did whenever I said something that made you wish I wasn't so stubborn or vague or difficult or indecisive. Or flippant. Or sarcastic. Those were some of the things you didn't like me to be. You rubbed your forehead. I seemed to make you tired. I seemed to make you wish I hadn't ever existed at all.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“In any case, I was the one who found it easiest to become acclimatised, probably because I hadn't known anything else and wasn't riddled with regrets.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“The fact was, I could use my thoughts as I pleased, the idea of wasting them was absurd.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men