Deirdre Riley

“I wonder,” he said after a long silence, “what will happen if I open my eyes?” The Prince of the Farthest Shore, sitting beside him, answered, “You’ll see things as they are.” Alistair shuddered. Since that moment of red mouth and black teeth and pain like ripping fire, he wasn’t convinced he wanted to see things as they were. “Maybe,” he said, “I’d rather sit here in the dark.” “No, you wouldn’t,” said the Prince, and there was a smile in his voice.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Dragonwitch

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“When you're having a hard time, it's natural to feel like you're having the hardest time in the world. And it's not selfish to feel that way.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time