Darren

“Intent doesn’t matter, she’d say, when you’ve really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you’re ever to make things whole between you.”
― Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

“The kind of dark that tricks the eyes. Makes you see things where there are none. Or miss things when they are there. The dark that lives in the spaces you know you should not look, lest you catch it in other eyes, staring back.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Such is the commander's lot.
Such is the folly of humanity.
Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Do not listen to your enemy...look at them. It will tell you everything.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe