Micaela

“The path of life is darkest when we choose to walk it alone.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“The rest of the time, I think, what if the polar ice caps keep melting? What if medical care keeps getting more expensive, and social security runs out, and housing prices keep rising while minimum wage doesn’t, and what if they resent me for bringing them into all of this? “What if they just hate me? Not because of the state of the world, but just because they hate me. Or what if they’re sick? What if they join a cult, and I can’t convince them to come home? What if they start a cult? What if they get into some heinous shit, and I can’t love them anymore—or worse, I keep loving them even though I can’t change anything? “What if there’s another world war? Or what if…what if everything else goes right, but at the end of my life, they’re sitting in hospice with me…”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Split into seasonal courts, their rulers were said to be vicious. Fickle. They couldn’t lie, but they lived on the edge of truth. They were reckless, using humans as pets and playthings.”
― Elayna R. Gallea, Tethered