My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.

It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and the meal, and we eat them up--we eat their meat, we lap up their sweetness, we covet and control and consume.

Maxon: “To be clear, no one agrees with you.”

America: “To be clear, I don’t care.

You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione.

So you choose him?'
'Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent