Ashleigh

“Still,” I said, “I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister.”
“I understand,” the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, “I, too, had a sister, once.”
The past tense didn't escape me. “What happened to her?” I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies.
“I had to eat her,” the dragon said, “to keep her from stealing my gold.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Deadly Pink

“I like dresses. They're the greatest hoax in history. You look all suave, and meanwhile you're literally wearing a bag with holes for your extremities.”
― Kate Hattemer, The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid

“Trust is like glass. You think you can see through it, that you know what's on the other side of it. You pretend you know your partner and that he knows you. But it's all an illusion. One day you bump against it and it cracks and you cut yourself and you bleed.”
― Christopher Pike, Falling

“Feeling is the independent variable, the x axis. What, in the end, determines it all.”
― Kate Hattemer, The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid