Jandy Winterbotham

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Mirages of happiness, I thought. If you walk towards them, they will never grow any closer. Eventually they will vanish into thin air, like the Lady of the Lake.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“Poise was keeping your knees and your lips together, your eyebrows and your nostrils apart.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd