Robyn Malmsten

“There are still things that profoundly upset me when I encounter them, whether it’s on the Web or the word or in the world. They never get easier, never stop my heart from trip-trapping, never let me escape, this time, unscathed. But they teach me things, and they open my eyes, and if they hurt, they hurt in ways that make me think and grow and change.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness. Indeed, I accomplished the not unusual feat of solving each question in my mind long before it presented itself to me in life—and of being beaten and bewildered just the same.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night