“These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.”

Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.

They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.

It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.

Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.

I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed.

I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.

We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are.

Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.

You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.

I am so hungry for someone to love me.

And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.

We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?

Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.

Knowledge after all is a dark art.

If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?

But I am both nightmare and sin.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.

You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

She was a woman who was once dark and destructive and it took courage to stand in front of her ruthless savageness.

I’m a savage. I’m dedicated. I’m just myself. That’s the best way to put it.