Judith

“Ten million light-years from now
bathed in the radiation of a time without time
are the bones of a girl who loved Ryann Bird.

In the dust left over from our supernova
atoms spread farther and wider than hope
are the pieces of the heart of the girl who
loved Alexandria the Great.”
― K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

“My sister and I had been born fair and dark, her looking like a girl in a fairy tale who would grow up sweet, a princess, and me like one who would grow into a cruel witch. I had seen the pictures in storybooks. I knew what I was, with my bloodstained hair. Girls like me were marked for the swans. How could they ever take a girl like Blanca?”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“When we revise the horror and sanitize the grotesque, we risk erasing the paths that led us here.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves