Ribbon

“She hooked her toes in the waist of his slacks and skimmed them off his legs.”
― Sarah Fine, Fated

“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it – the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see. Such is politics.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Talk to your neighbors. Make them promise to vote. Make them promise to take the country back from the torturers and thugs. The people who laughed at my friends as they lay fresh in their graves at the bottom of the harbor. Make them promise to talk to their neighbors.

Most of us choose none of the above. It's not working. You have to choose — choose freedom.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed-- but never think you are the night.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree