Trish

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“But we didn’t know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we’d grown up with.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.” The”
― John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down