Chara Sinistore

“Everything he’d learned said it wasn’t normal to hunger for a human. And yet, with a near brutal intensity, he hungered for this one.”
― Lucian Bane, Ruin Box Set 1-3

“There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Almanzo could see his feet, but of course Alice's were hidden under her skirts. Her hoops rounded out, and she had to pull them back and stoop to drop the seeds neatly into the furrow.
Almanzo asked her if she didn't want to be a boy. She said yes, she did. Then she said no, she didn't.
"Boys aren't pretty like girls, and they can't wear ribbons."
"I don't care how pretty I be," Almanzo said. "And I wouldn't wear ribbons anyhow."
"Well, I like to make butter and I like to patch quilts. And cook, and sew, and spin. Boys can't do that. But even if I be a girl, I can drop potatoes and sow carrots and drive horses as well as you can."
"You can't whistle on a grass stem," Almanzo said.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy

“The greatest pain is the love you leave behind.”
― Jason Latshaw, The Threat Below