Veronica

“To Ammu, her twins seemed like a pair of small bewildered frogs engrossed in each other's company, lolloping arm in arm down a highway full of hurtling traffic.

Entirely oblivious of what trucks can do to frogs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The meanest hound dog you'll ever meet
He ain't the hound dog in the street
He bears some teeth and tears some skin
But brother that's the worst of him
The one you really gotta dread
Is the one that howls inside your head”
― Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown

“His bones pulverized, his head cracked, his eyes reimagining their relationship to the skull.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things