Drea ✪

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment