Alyssa

“It feels like a trap,” I whispered. “The…” “Happiness,” he finished.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“And by the time they return home to Villon, she will already be a different version of herself. A room with the windows all thrown wide, eager to let in the fresh air, the sunlight, the spring.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The real answer all comes down to words. Delivery. From the crafty redefinition of existing words (and the invention of new ones) to powerful euphemisms, secret codes, renamings, buzzwords, chants and mantras, “speaking in tongues,” forced silence, even hashtags, language is the key means by which all degrees of cultlike influence occur.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“But brainwashing is a metaphor. There is nothing objective about it.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism