Camy

“This was an incident no one ever told my brother, an incident that everyone else in my family has forgotten, except me. One day during his illness, when my mother and I were standing over him, looking at him—he was asleep and so didn’t know we were doing so—I reminded my mother of the ants almost devouring him and she looked at me, her eyes narrowing in suspicion, and she said, “What a memory you have!”—perhaps the thing she most dislikes about me.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

“You’re...you...there are no words... It’s like you’re an entirely new, undiscovered species of fuckboy.”
― Carmel Rhodes, Truly

“We lamia have haunted the dreams of men since the time of the ancients. The grandchildren of those who hurt me will weep at the sound of my name after I throw them in the pyre of my hatred and dance in the rain of their ashes.”
― Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

“He’s like that,” Mrs. Thomas said, closing the box with the last of the ornaments. “Still. He takes relationships seriously. And sometimes takes on the weight of burdens, and of blame that is not his to bear.”
― Nia Forrester, Acceptable Losses