pretenxiouspsyche

“And no matter where I went, I’d never get home. Because home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother’s bones lay sleeping.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“We’d made the wise choice, done the right thing. I had to believe that
logic would bring comfort in time. Tonight, there was just this too-quiet
room, the ache of loss, knowledge deep and final as the tolling of a bell:
Something good has gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“All power is cursed,” I say. “The most terrible among us will do anything to get it, and those who’d wield power best don’t want it thrust upon them. But that doesn’t mean they can avoid their responsibilities forever.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind