Brenna Steele

“People who drove themselves that hard were usually afraid of something. What did people like that want? They wanted to be the best, to have the most. Because being the best meant that they were safe from harm. But no one was ever safe from harm. Not really.”
― Lisa Unger, Confessions on the 7:45

“Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Then, in a low rich voice, he began to recite a familiar passage from The Aeneid: “‘Let us go, goddess-born, where the Fates, in their ebb and flow, draw us—”
― Francesca Stanfill, The Falcon's Eyes

“Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear—”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses