Brianna

“And here’s the truth: I initially wanted to hire a maid in hopes that she would become my replacement—that if Andrew fell in love with another woman, he would finally let me go. But that’s not why I hired Millie. That’s not why I gave her a copy of the key to the room. And that’s not why I left a bottle of pepper spray in the blue bucket in the closet. I hired her to kill him. She just doesn’t know it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“How does he look at me?” Janis smiled. “Like he never wants to look away.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“I will happily watch Aretia burn to the fucking ground again if it means you live.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame