Inside My Library Mind

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“She trusted him. She had claimed his Aether, and she would guide his blade.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows