April Mccaffrey

“Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him, too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Embrace your strange, dear daughter. Where’s the fun in being normal?”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Hades, all the fine suits in the world won't change the fact that you stink of death.”
― Rachel Smythe, Lore Olympus: Volume One

“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood