Leslie

“You need fear to stay sharp. You need fear to keep your wildness in check. But just a little bit. Just enough to feel alive.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Deeds

“We spent all of our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana," said Alexander. "We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now."

Her hands went on his face. "That's all any of us ever has, my love," she said. "And it all flies by."

"Yes," he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. "But what a five minutes it's been."
-- The Summer Garden”
― Paulina Simmons

“I’ve heard that hat making drives people mad,” Pandora remarked. “Which I don’t understand, because it doesn’t seem tedious enough to do that.” “It isn’t the job that drives them mad,” West said. “It’s the mercury solution they use to smooth the felt. After repeated exposure, it addles the brain. Hence the term ‘mad as a hatter.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache