Wintermute

“There are three butterflies that dance around a flame. The first butterfly comes close to the flame and says, 'I know all about love. It is beautiful, unforgettable.' The second butterfly wants to get even closer than the first, so it does. But it singes its wings. So it withdraws. Terrified, the butterfly says, 'I know that love only burns.' But the third butterfly simply throws itself into the flames and is consumed.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

“During that course in which "I" become, I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

“Get off your high horse bitch youre literally reading school shooter fanfic.”
― Eliza Clark, Penance

“you’re not that important and it ain’t up to you to fix the universe?”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls