Laura

“Maybe there really was a demon inside her. One that craved feather beds and fine food and applause.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“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

“This was the time I thought there was nothing to lose. There is always, always a bottom you can't imagine. I didn't know that then.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons