Kei

“They picked the wrong fucking girl. I’ve been fighting longer than I’ve been walking.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“He said something about... ah, you know who," Leto said. "
"Lucifer's our ruler, not a dark wizard, Leto. You can say his name," Claire muttered.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“That’s the funny thing,” she said. “Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all think it sounds brave, but I’ll tell you something even braver. To struggle and fight for the ones you love today. And then do it all over again the next day. Every day. For your whole life. It’s not as romantic, I admit. But it takes a lot of courage to live for someone, too.”
― Victor LaValle, The Devil in Silver

“Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds