Myka✨

“I'm the worst person in the world"
"No, you're not." Patrick's hand came down in a fist and he hit the arm of the sofa. "You're not the best person in the world either, which is what you really think. You're the same as everybody else. But that's harder for you, isn't it. You'd rather be one or the other. The idea that you might be ordinary is unbearable.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“In the end, the presumption of regularity depended on what the mind infers. To kill legally, as the president has ordered, to fulfill a duty, as the president has defined; to continue to work, to do the job, to destroy the enemy - to do all this, the country must make the irrevocable connection between an addict and a gun. It is a connection that the president has made in speech after speech. That is what is normal, acceptable, regular.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

“Love is all-powerful, until you learn firsthand what happens when a vegetable peeler meets the far-back surface of your tongue.”
― Claudia Lux, Sign Here

“Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea