Mar

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Her sabah savaştığım,karmakarışık saçlarımı düşünüyorum.Yaşamım boyunca,dolaşık saçlarımı fırçalayıp açmak için saatler harcadım ama saçlarımı ne kadar özenle tutamlara ayırmaya çalışsam da hemen dolaşıveriyorlar.Açılması olanaksız bir hale gelinceye kadar birbirlerine giriyorlar.Bazen makası kapıp oracıkta düğümü kesmekten başka elden bir şey gelmiyor.Ama insanlardan oluşan bir düğümü nasıl kesebilirsiniz ki?”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom