World was on fire, no one could save me but you

Some men will say I meant to kill my brother. The gods know it is a lie, but I will hear the whispers till the day I die.

- FRANK HERBERT

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Season 1, USA) EP2

Bertie Carvel as Prince Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone

CATHERINE O'HARA as MOIRA ROSE in SCHITT'S CREEK

"She was afraid of losing Enzo's kindness, the attention he gave to all her anxieties, the tranquil strength he emanated and thanks to which he had saved her […].

40 FICTIONAL FEMALE DYNAMICS 12. Leia Organa & Rey Skywalker (Star Wars)

I can't lose you. I won't survive.

Hashiguchi Goyô, Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair (1920)

The girl, twenty – her black hair flows through her comb, how arrogant, how beautiful her spring!

Yosano Akiko, tr. Hiroaki Sato (Japanese)

Lying alone, my black hair tangled, uncombed, I long for the one who touched it first.

Izumi Shikibu, tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani (Japanese)

Will he love me forever? There’s no way I can tell. Since sun-rise my thoughts have been as disheveled as my black hair.

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 – 1911)

John Clymer (1907 – 1989). Summer Shadows. Oil on board.

And as of this morning, what is real and what is not real is my business.

I would remain firm, I was the needle of the compass that stays fixed while the lead traces circles around it. Lila on the other hand — it seemed clear to me now, and it made me proud, it calmed me, touched me — struggled to feel stable. She couldn’t, she didn’t believe it. However much she had always dominated all of us and had imposed and was still imposing a way of being, on pain of her resentment and her fury, she perceived herself as a liquid and all her efforts were, in the end, directed only at containing herself. When, in spite of her defensive manipulation of persons and things, the liquid prevailed, Lila lost Lila, chaos seemed the only truth, and she — so active, so courageous — erased herself and, terrified, became nothing.