Candice

“Today, I am eight hundred and twenty-seven days sober. My name is Jake Tully and I’m an addict. And I’ll always be an addict. I’ll never beat this. But I’ll keep going to meetings, and I’ll talk to my sponsor (who I’m going to ask to marry me), and I’ll fight this until I win. We are going to win.”
― J. Daniels, The Tragedy of Felix and Jake

“He was not inclined to believe that cruelty delivered with one hand was redeemed by a caress from the other,”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince