CaLee Beard

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at these contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they’ll break themselves trying for what they’ll never achieve.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“there is a time for grief”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“But by choosing to protect their peace”
― Harper L. Woods, The Damned

“Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky