Maria Brooklin

“I’m just going to sit here and starve quietly. In fact, I might suffocate myself.” Lesley plunged her head into the mud. Jack pulled her up. “Stop fucking about.”
― Michael Logan, World War Moo

“You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls