Althea

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“So glory to the queers who live to see the credits roll”
― Kevin Kantor, Please Come Off-Book

“Alex saw very clearly how dangerous a book like Mary’s could become in the hands of such impressionable girls, such privileged girls: girls who kissed and fondled and laughed as they read each other passages out in the woods; girls whose parents' social standing had taught them that there was nothing at all in the world they could not subjugate, purchase, or ignore; girls who set fires only to watch as others tried, and failed, to put them out.”
― Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

“Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies