Sinead

“If you have ever prepared for a siege in two days, then you know what the next few days were like. If you haven't, then you probably don't. Well...a big formal wedding is about the same (and because we do cakes, I've been on the periphery of a few), except that if things go wrong in a siege you'll all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“Become so drunk on life and love that it blinds you to the hate threatening to drown you. Chew on grief for breakfast, devour aches for lunch, inhale life’s acid, let it burn the costume he has forced upon you.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood

“I feel as lonely as I have ever been”
― Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch

“If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red