Carla

“Maybe we’d all had a fire inside of us, clawing to get out, and we’d kept it at bay to fit into someone else’s mold of what we should be as women.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Dating

“equality always needed to be balanced with opportunity. Some people needed a measure of security from poverty, disease, and the threat of violence—a kind of safety net—but people also needed freedom, and the right environment to grow and fulfill their potential.”
― James Maxwell, The Hidden Relic

“Zealots couldn’t be reasoned with because they didn’t want reason. They wanted blind faith. It was their way, their faction, or nothing. Everything that disagreed or opposed them would be cast on the “holy” fires burning behind the man they saw as their savior. They looked at him as if he were a god made flesh.”
― Elise Kova, A Hunt of Shadows

“Life’s rough. You can complain about it or make the best of it. I won’t lie that I get my fits of melancholy here and there, but to my mind there’s no use moping about for things I can’t change. The only thing I can control is what I do and who I chose to be.”
― Tricia O'Malley, Sphere Song