Cassandra Gibson

“If every woman she has ever been were given a name, would there be a Midwestern Girl at all?”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“He'd turned his head so he was looking at her, and for a moment there'd been something in his eyes that almost took her breath away. It had felt like...but she didn't even want to put words to it, the way you weren't supposed to speak a birthday wish aloud.”
― Alicia Thompson, With Love, from Cold World

“And here is the best thing of all, the thing that makes Cassandra smile as the men storm her temple, exactly as she has always known they would: someday, Trojan will not be synonymous with bravery or failure, betrayal or endurance, or the most beautiful woman or the most foolish of men.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“Cassandra is tired of running at wooden horses with nothing but the flames of the smallest match. She is tired of speaking to listening ears. The listening ears of the men who think her mad drive her to madness.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw