Michelle

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Lying was a sin, apparently, unless you did it outrageously and persistently enough, in which case it qualified as scripture.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“One of those things you’ve heard of, sounded vaguely interesting, but you’d never, ever want to actually visit. Like England.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils