Smrithi

“Remember you don't have to be brave, you lived, you are (both) already bravery itself.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Who we were and what we did and what was done to us - we don't get to shrug that stuff off and become some new shiny person.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“How had she not yet learned the lesson of juggling knives? Even when you kept them all in the air, you still cut yourself on the blades.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“She'd never been all that afraid of getting hurt, or dying. It had always been her own abilities, her capacity for solving a puzzle, for getting a job done at any cost. She was terrified of what she could do if she tried.
Charlie had been walking away from herself her whole life.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night