Samantha (ladybug.books)

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Pride…it’s so often an excuse for people to be weak.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X