Hailee

“And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned