Laura

“Imagine Persephone for the first time in the absolute intoxication of dark, her senses stretching languid, the cave as moist as lover's breath. The feast, the chair, the plate, the fruit: red. Imagine a story whose moral is mute desire.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“Come on. I love you, but this is no life.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar