Carla

“What are you going to have?” he asked.
“A nervous breakdown,” she muttered and opened her menu.
So we’ll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.”
― Jessica Bird, Beauty and the Black Sheep (The Moorehouse Legacy, #1)

“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

“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

“He saw clearly the truth other men didn’t. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use it.”
― Jessica Bird, His Comfort and Joy