G Daniels

“Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"They go to hell, was my ready and orthodox answer.
. . .
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come was objectionable: " I must keep in good health , and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“secrets decay, as corpses do, growing ranker over time.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“I wouldn't go so far as to say the Mad Russian was like a father figure to me. More like a perpetually drunk uncle who let me play with sharp things at a tender age.”
― Stephen Spotswood, Murder Under Her Skin