Elizabeth

“Pursuit didn't constitute possession; damage did. Harm something and it's yours to keep.”
― Ariel Courage, Bad Nature

“None of us deserve our bad fortune, but that does not stop it from coming.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“She was worse off than me, I thought, because she'd never stopped loving her dad. Not everything bears comparison, but I wouldn't have traded places with her. I was in some perverse sense glad Dad had hurt me. The line he'd crossed was clearer, easier to find in the dark.”
― Ariel Courage, Bad Nature

“You’re much brighter than you let on—and much meaner, though perhaps that’s simply because you’re unhappy, and you’re unhappy because you desire fiercely what you can’t have. You yearn and crave and want with such force, it seems to eat you up from the inside.”
― Johanna van Veen, Blood on Her Tongue