Juli.

“Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?”
― Cookie O'Gorman, The Good Girl's Guide to Being Bad

“Had this woman ever loved him? Had she ever truly, honestly cared? The answer was right before him, sitting in the fast-cooling water, two significant cuts, one across each of her dainty wrists. Yet, even at six, he knew, if she had loved him, even a little, she would not have taken her own life as he, her son, her only child, slept, hungry and hurt and without a soul to turn to, laying in the floor of a two-room shack on the edge of nowhere.”
― R.K. Latch, Welcome to the Family

“Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"—here I opened wide the door;—
Darkness there, and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Empathy. I am supposed to look at you and know how you might feel, feel what you feel, but honestly, what does any of us get except a reflection of our own thoughts and feelings?”
― Blake Pierce, The Girl He Pined