Morisette

“She was part of a group that helped tilt the world just a tiny bit the right way. Yes, she, one tiny person, was part of it. Hardly noticeable, true, but “hardly” was more than nothing. “Hardly” made all the difference in the world in how she saw herself.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“The spotlight hadn’t dimmed as Molly aged but had changed its glow instead. It had grown more intense with each new experience, had become more personalized and distinguished. It was no longer the bland whitish light of youth, a light dictated by a ceaselessly shallow society and therefore able to be seen by everyone in such a society. No, hers at present was a spotlight with highly individualized rays that could no longer be seen by most men simply because most men’s eyes weren’t good enough to see them.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“If you love her. If you want her to stay. Fight for her.”
― Janet Gurtler The Truth About Us

“Through the fire and its flames,
I’ve been ruptured and raptured by many
names, to get to the heart that mine claims
and eat it whole, for all it’s worth,
the most precious object on this earth.”
― Lavinia Valeriana, Adrift in Acheron