Melanie Beaver

“When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.”
― Paula Stokes, Liars, Inc.

“No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Each new morn
New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
As if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out
Like syllable of dolor.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth