Xiana

“Tell freedom I said hello.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“After three years of English at Cambridge, being force-fed literary theory, I was almost convinced that literature was all coded messages about Marxism and the death of the self. I crawled out of the post-structuralist desert thirsty for heroines I could cry and laugh with. I was jaded. I craved trash.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine