Chelsi (Moe)

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There is no ‘this’. This is nothing.”
“And I am nothing,” Neil prompted. When Andrew gestured confirmation, Neil said, “And as you’ve always said, you want nothing.”
Andrew stared stone-faced back at him.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“Oh sure, you can barely control your own disgusting body, but go ahead and take care of my completely defenseless infant. Also, here’s some car keys, because you may only be sixteen and your brain isn’t fully developed yet, but I trust you implicitly to operate my four-thousand-pound vehicle.” Honestly, I miss the old days, when everybody died peacefully of cholera at the ripe old age of thirteen, surrounded by their grandchildren.”
― Matt Bellassai, Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations