Alexis Everett

“How remarkable,” he said. “If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won’t stand up for you. There’s poetry in that, don’t you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Memory is a wicked thing that warps and twists. But paper and ink receive the truth without emotion, and they read it back without partiality. That, I believe, is why so few women are taught to read and write. God only knows what they would do with the power of pen and ink at their disposal.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“This is what it means to age, I think. The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“you cannot make a child be anything he is not.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River