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“Dearest Penelope,
I am a giant jerk. I don't mean to imply that I am abnormally sized human who happens to also be a jerk, but, instead, that I am a normal-sized human who happens to sometimes be an extra-large jerk. When you buy me an ugly holiday sweater next Christmas, it needn't be an extra-large man's sweater, but it should probably feature some much-despised...figure that will serve to indicate to the world the immense degree of my jerkiness. What I'm really saying is...I've thought more about it, and I'd like to be of help to you in your quest so that come Christmas you can just find me a basic ugly holiday sweater that has no other object but to be a basic ugly holiday sweater, and I can wear it the next time we beat God and the devil alike at trash can bowling.
Yours,
Flynt”
― Kate Ellison, The Butterfly Clues

“That's what trust is, Sazed thought. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“There's nothing out there to punish evil, no one out there to reward the righteous. We're all just adrift.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea