Eliza

“Everyone asks: “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual, artistic life?” To this I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”
― Cathy Porter, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia

“The plane shook
and it scared her
not because she
was scared to fall
but because she cared
so little
if she did.”
― Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince