Laura

“How Shesheshen wanted one of the hunters to stop this. For one of them to stand up for common sense, if not for the rights of a young damsel. A damsel who had offered them a perfectly good reason to get lost for a few weeks.

But humans never stood up for the right thing. They stood around feeling uncomfortable, and later pretended that feeling uncomfortable meant they were virtuous. Now Malik stood to one side, only slightly obstructing Wulfyre's path. Surely he'd feel awful about this tomorrow when he was spending his blood money, before running of with his partner to the next kill.

And they called her monstrous.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“One cup exactly," I say quietly.

"Are you seriously whispering?" he asks.

I look away from my cup of cream just long enough to glare at him.

"Does the volume of someone's voice also affect how a recipe turns out?" he says.

I keep glaring at him.

"Should I sing to the cream?”
― Katie Cicatelli-Kuc, Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

“As Bobby took his turn with a rock, Julian began the story where he left off. "The Macedonian commander looked around the hills where the Romans had his army cornered. There was no way to outflank them, nowhere to retreat."

"Did they surrender?" Bobby asked.

"Never," Julian said with conviction. "Death always before dishonor."

Julian paused as the words echoed in his mind. Those words had been engraved on his shield. As a commander, he had lived by them.

As a slave, he'd long forgotten them.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Fantasy Lover

“I've spent more than four decades cultivating a life of stealth. I have over twenty passports, twice as many identities. I pride myself on being no one. The vague shape of a man sitting acoss from you on the train. An outline, a charcoal sketch.

Forty years of creating a life in the shadows...

All to find myself driving down Broadway on the hood of giant bat-themed dump truck. And it suddenly occurs to me...

That I might actually hate Batman.”
― Scott Snyder, Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo