Lara

“If they murder me, avenge me,” Serena whispers. It’s nice, all this faith she seems to have in me. “Any preferences on how?” “Be creative.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“we just know you're going to
take the world by storm,"
they all tell her, proud as can be.

"what if I don't want to?"
she wishes she could say;
instead, she stays quiet
& smiles like a good girl.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart

“You,” he says, voice deep, almost too low to hear. “How the fuck do you smell like this?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride