Iris

“- You're so hateful.
- I learned at your feet.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“And maybe it was more than that.

Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?”
― Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm