Cecilia

“Didn't they realize their lives were worth more than the dubious affection of one silly man?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Once, a Whimsical poet died of despair after finding himself unequal to the task of capturing a fair one's beauty in simile. I think it more likely he died of arsenic poisoning, but so the story goes.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“He was astonishingly vain even by fair folk standards, which was like saying a pond is unusually wet, or a bear surprisingly hairy.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of opposite genders).”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists