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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I fail to understand why men think violence will intimidate women. Women, who bleed all over themselves every month, who rub blood clots between their fingers and burst them like insects, and sometimes can't because they're not blood clots, they're tongue-coloured strings of meat from the womb. Women who burst open in childbirth, vagina splitting and anus sagging, tiny, hardening fingernails clawing inside of them, placentas like thick filet mignon.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“The shade is "Mummy Brown." If mummified Egyptians had known they were fated to be pulverized to produce an umber for such a mediocre painter, they surely would have chosen other burial options.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“Women! Theatrical bitches.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“You should know that I die slowly with each tear you shed.”
― K.M. Moronova, Once Upon a Demon's Heart

“Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Devils

“A man was speaking, so I stopped listening.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“Mental note—physical exertion makes me homicidal. Avoid anything above a brisk walk.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“This book is dedicated to all the girls who like morally grey fictional men, and who screamed out loud the first time they read “who did this to you?” This ones for you.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“She screamed in my face—I screamed back. Oh, look, we’re harmonizing. Mozart would have loved this.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“A girl's life is the worst life in the world. A girl's life is: you are born, you bleed, you burn.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“There is the person people see on the outside and then there is the person on the inside and then, even farther down, is that other, buried person, a naked and silent creature, not used to light.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I am my own worst disaster.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“For all the people here, I am utterly alone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm so tired of drunk and desperate. I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces