julia

“It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.”
― Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko

“The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“What If I cut off your arm right now?
Then you'd see how fast the Institution would cast you aside.
Just like they did me."

"You wouldn't."

"No I wouldn't.
And I'm the villain.
What do you suppose that says about you?”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War