Brett Burkhardt

“Naive is a word powerful people use to shut you up. They don't like you suggesting that the world could be less awful, because the world isn't awful at all for them. they like the world exactly how it is.”
― Cherie Priest, It Was Her House First

“I hate winks. They're so ambiguous.”
― Samantha Downing

“What would it do to someone, to survive the Holocaust only to realize that the other side wasn't going to save you? To understand that you were as subhuman under the stars and tripes, or the hammer and sickle, as you had been under the swastika? That everyone else was going to the biggest celebration in the history of the world while you died of hunger because people found you uncomfortable to think about?”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Black Flame

“What's worse than being sick?

I'm afraid you're boring.”
― Elizabeth Bedlam, Rabbit Skin Glue