Lisa Lynch

“Wasn't that what most of the bad stuff in the world was about, staying when you knew damned well you should go, pushing on when you knew you should cut and run? Wasn't that, in the last analysis, why so many people liked cheap horror movies? Because they recognized the scared kids who refused to leave the haunted house even after the murders started as themselves?”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“But I follow my gut, and my gut says we meet this one head-on with smiles on our faces. Look," said Locke, "the more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we needed to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we're in it, and I say we're equal to it. I don't need to be reminded that we are up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks