Emily

“There’s a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes it’s no longer safe with the person you trusted.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“They say that only humans can contemplate death. Cats don’t fear it the same way that we do. It doesn’t cause them the same level of anxiety that it does us humans. And then, despite our angst over mortality, we end up keeping cats as pets, even though we know that they will die long before we do, causing the owner immense grief. However, when you think about it, a human being can never really grieve their own death. Death is always something that happens to other people around them. In the end, the death of a cat isn’t so different from the death of a human.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.”
― Frank Tayell, Wasteland

“Integrity isn’t something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don’t.”
― Barbara Davis, When Never Comes