Manal

“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“Women are at their most powerful during menstruation, connected to life-giving forces. The reason we don’t use traditional medicines and we’re not around ceremonial fires during this time is that we carry our own medicine and fire within. Others may act as if it’s something annoying or unclean, but even the way we refer to menstruation is respectful. Your Moon is a mighty time.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“The real power belongs to the people who control information,’ he says, still staring at the ground. ‘Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River