Ajna

“Dummies, every single one of us. The gifted ones most of all.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I want,” she says. “That’s my problem. I want and I want and I want.”
“What do you want?” he asks, voice soft.
“Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far.”
He shudders at her words, shaking his head against them.
She goes on, whispering against his skin. “You cannot understand. I am a chasm that will never be full. I am hunger. I am need. I cannot be sated. If you try, I will swallow you up. I will take all of you and want more. I will use you. I will drain you until you are nothing more than a husk.”
“Use me, then,” he whispers, mouth on her throat.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“So if you feel lost some days and you don’t know who you are and you don’t feel like you’re theirs, like Parks’ is just a name you happen to share with them, just remember that I know who you are, and you’re my sister, and that’s my name too”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“What else is there to know about Marya Antonova, in the end? Only that now, she is called Baba Yaga, and of all her many trinkets, her daughter remains the greatest treasure of them all.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy