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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.


“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War

“PS. I write to you in stings, Red, but this is me, the truth of me, as I do so: broken open by the act, in the palm of your hand, dying.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Either there was something wrong with me, or men were generally unwell and at the root of all problems in society. It was definitely the latter.”
― Psycho Fae
― Psycho Fae

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
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