Shannon

“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The wrath Chaol found in Aelin’s eyes was world-ending. “You bring my court into this, Chaol,” Aelin said with lethal softness, “and I don’t care what you were to me, or what you have done to help me. You betray them, you hurt them, and I don’t care how long it takes, or how far you go: I’ll burn you and your gods-damned kingdom to ash. Then you’ll learn just how much of a monster I can be.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie