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“I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.”
― Courtney Milan, Unlocked

“Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonight
Sparkling for moon's spiced silver bite
Upon skin of darkness, loving night more
Storm begins unlocking cold wind's door”
― Munia Khan

“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.”
― Courtney Milan, Unlocked

“I do believe you would have cut the rope.”
― Courtney Milan, Unlocked

“As she stood under the spray, the hot water almost scalding her skin, she imagined herself being reborn”
― Soulla Christodoulou , Unlocked

“She screamed, releasing all the pent-up sadness, humiliation and unworthiness that had been painstakingly eating away at her like moths on clothes.”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Unlocked: Will a chance encounter, miles away from home, heal old wounds?

“At the Desoto Solar Farm, the company had a broken lock on a 24,000 volt transformer room with bare electrical connections inside of it. The contractor had warned me about the dangers of entering such a room when it was energized. I knew the local children were playing on the solar farm and may discover it. As such, I told the contractor to either fix the lock or turn off the transformer to protect the children. They ignored me and left it energized and unlocked!”
― Steven Magee

“She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream this time, because she had no breath, no lungs, no tongue. The kernel of magic inside her had opened, and it was flooding her body like salt water or light.”
― H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter