poesielos

“I cannot tolerate it when people dislike me. I never stop thinking about it, to the point where it is like I am wearing their dislike wherever I go, which chafes like wet shoes.”
― Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“Sometimes the storm clears away the wreckage.”
― Travis Baldree, Brigands & Breadknives

“I think for the first time in a long time, I wasn’t looking backward … or forward, either. So maybe I was looking at whatever is between those things.”
― Travis Baldree, Brigands & Breadknives