Jessica

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Everyone,” she said, “thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions.” She glanced aside at me. “Love is a fire, my Knight. Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate. Reason, young wizard, is the opposite of hate, not love.”
― Jim Butcher, Battle Ground

“I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don’t take zombies into consideration. I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street