Jackie Montgomery

“Perhaps marriage was not ownership so much as choice. To choose to define each other in terms of forever, even in times of darkness, even in death. Wasn’t there a certain freedom in that? Freedom in certainty, and in love, which grounded even someone like me in the face of life’s chaos.”
― Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

“I won't let your ignorance silence my pain”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Many people think that death is the end. The ending of pain, of hate, of love. But these things are not so easy to erase. Any kind of wanting leaves a scar. The living are good at forgetting, the years smoothing out memories until all the days of their lives are nothing but rolling planes of sameness. But in Hell, it is always just yesterday that everything was lost. The dead do not forget.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng