Meredith Rushing

“Perhaps human intelligence was a mistake, and everyone who celebrated the escape from the Garden of Eden was wrong. Perhaps the gift of rationality did not outweigh the debilitating agony that came with it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Abitha could see that these people believed, truly believed, that they were doing God’s work here this day. And there was something about these people that horrified Abitha even worse than those whose faces were lined with cruelty. As at least cruelty was a thing that could be pointed out, confronted. But this belief, this absolute conviction that this evil they were doing was good, was God’s work—how, she wondered, how could such a dark conviction ever be overcome?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“I was well aware how wildly I loved him, but looking at him then...I felt it in every pore of my body, felt it as if it might crush me, consume me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The moment you start stressing about how to keep something, you lose it forever. Because you’re not enjoying it. You’re just owning it.”
― Lily Sparks, Teen Killers Club