Skyler Johnson

“She might have slit their throats in silence—she had learned to be silent as the fox is silent—but she was arrogant, and she was angry, so she called out to them first. She allowed them to scrabble blades from sheaths, spears from saddles.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“You led me into archives and private collections, libraries and museums, ancient ruins and family vaults. I excelled at the chase—I had a better-than-average memory and an eye for detail, and a mind that clicked obediently along like a series of bright brass gears. But it was like hunting in a hall of mirrors; I caught glimpses of bright armor or pale hair, but when I reached out, I touched nothing but glass.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Men who find solace only in other men are to be distrusted.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait