DaNae

“Scarlett looked at him. It was a miracle of a kind: Albert always saw the best in people, even when they were trying to riddle him with bullets. All his life, the world had rubbed savagely against him, trying to wear him down. And what had happened? His innocence had been burnished by that rubbing—burnished till it shone. It was the hard, cruel things around him that had been worn away.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Legendary Scarlett and Browne

“Adopted is not an adjective,” he said. “Joellen says that. It’s an event that happens, not who you are. As an adjective it implies inherent bullshit about a person that isn’t true. A person is not ‘adopted.’ They were adopted. Words matter.”
― Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

“When you rush you pen things you didn't mean and you tire. It takes patience to say exactly what one means, to think of the right word. Remember: words, especially those written, are immortal.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo