patricia

“You learn to live in the dark when you have no choice. Can you blame me for making the darkness mine?”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“Speak one more word to my wife,” Aris growled, “and I will tear your tongue from your throat.”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“Please,” he said. “There cannot be nobody else but you.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“It's so easy to fall into the assumption that anything someone else gains is something you lose. To think of success as some lavish party with only a limited number of invites. To convince yourself that if you could only make it to a certain point in the distance, you'll finally find a place to rest. To feel like there's always more than you can do. But I mean, look what's being done to us - to our self-esteem, to our pride, to our bodies. We're exhausted and on the verge of breaking down at any second and... somehow we're expected to just keep going.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen