Melanin

“Then answer me this...how can you know the good without the understanding of evil? How can you know happiness without experiencing the misery, pleasure without the pain? These things are essential parts of life that need to be faced and endured.”
― Stephanie Hudson, Afterlife

“So what are you afraid of?” She paused, considering how to answer. “Hope.” His brow furrowed. “Hope scares you?” “I try not to hope for anything,” she said. “If you expect nothing, you aren’t disappointed when you get nothing.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“Sometimes, people think they want to be in control." She looked at him pointedly, making it clear he was that someone. "But when they finally give it up and let someone else make the decisions, they realize they were wrong. The problem wasn't that you didn't have enough control. It was that you could never relax because no one else could ease your burden.”
― Auryn Hadley, Spell of Love

“found in the drawer downstairs the other day. It’s by this new author Sienna Mynx. She’s pretty good.”
― Sienna Mynx, La Famiglia