Denise

“Not committing the so-called deadly sins is not enough to avoid bad juju in this life, or the next. Those everyday little wrongdoings, like ingratitude, unkindness, and entitlement, are hefty cornerstones of karmic debt.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“It hurt too much to consider the truth. It was so much easier to pretend; to keep spinning the fantasy for as long as they could.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“The only monsters she'd seen were humans with something to hide behind.”
― Margaret Owen