Holly

“The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“I want to be happy with you, princess. For as long as you’ll let me. Whatever time we have together will be a greater gift than I deserve. And when you go back to the mortal world”—his voice grew raspy—“I will be cheering for you every step of the way, honored that, even for a short time, I got to call you mine.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“So we’re good?” Dillon says. “We’re in an overheating truck we don’t own and we just blew up about twelve semis and we left a paralyzed woman to die in her car and I’m wearing some dead guy’s jacket and we just saw our two best friends die and there’s a killer after us who can change his face and likes to eat people,” Harper says. “Yeah, I’d say we’re great.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives

“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War