Prima

“Certain stories are recounted so many times that they become parched of meaning, stories like those concerning the girl and her wolf in the woods, the cinder-smudged princess, the monstrous beauty who vomits pearls with every sob.

Others, however, are kept from taverns and wine-warmed conversations, catalogued but rarely recited. Complicated stories with no easy ending, stories that remind us karmic debt is a contrivance of despair, that there is nothing fair or sweet about this world.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“You would be amazed by what you can do when you have faith, when you know how to commoditize someone else’s faith, when you know the trick of words like hold on and tomorrow.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“Veronica Speedwell, I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“I’d rather drink a can of Axe body spray while feral raccoons feast on my exposed bone marrow than sit across from this twat.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate