Ishmeen

“Kallias laughs so loudly and abruptly, I nearly topple out of the armchair. He has his hands on his knees while his whole body shakes from the force of the laughter. What the devils?

Did I break the king?”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“You're not really doing this, are you?...That thing some girls do, where the guy is horrible and then makes some gesture, and the girl forgets how horrible the guy is, just in time for the guy to do something else horrible.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue