Ty Wilkinson

“My father waved her away. “She’s destined,” he said. “It is plain as day. With your grace and my strength, she can be the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen. They will tell stories about her one day.” My mother rolled her eyes at him as she began to put dinner on the table. “I would rather she was kind and happy.” “Alicia,” my father said as he stood behind my mother and wrapped his arms around her. “No one ever tells stories about that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Another voice whispered past then, a fragment of memory, spoken on a rooftop in Rifthold. What if we go on, only to more pain and despair? Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains