Brianna Jo♡

“No longer married, suddenly I was widowed. From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body.”
― Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

“The Widow Russell apparently took her at-home retirement so far as the abstain from receiving guests in the formal parlors: Theo was shown to a pink-papered upstairs room where she sat in an armchair whose chintz upholstery featured roses twining daintily on a white ground. She was head-to-toe in black, of course, and for a moment he had the very odd impression of a spider lurking in a rose bouquet.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Lady Awakened

“I wish to drown in my pain, alone, just like a moth dancing to its death in the flame!”
― Nishta Kochar, Cinnamon Bizarre : Collection of Short Stories

“You are indeed a victim of our culture's mercenary exploitation of feminine innocence.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde