Alena Ellen

“Why are you so beautiful, do you think? So hungry? So able to bend the wills of those around you? You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Within the locker is a chalk-and-crayon likeness of the lecherous painter, most likely of his own creation, for it is substandard.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“There are no gods left to watch, I’m afraid. And there are no gods left to help you now, Aelin Galathynius.'
Aelin smiled, and Goldryn burned brighter. 'I am a god.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Now the crows drop winter from their wings, invoke the harshest season with their cry.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories