Hannah Schofield

“one can’t be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Humans love to make things complicated. Look at belief. They build whole morality and judgment systems on it—who believes what, believes in the right way, believes strongly enough. It’s so unnecessary. Belief, when you get right down to it, is just a powerful story. Tell a story well, and the reader doesn’t just want it to be true—they know it is. Get enough souls to believe in a story, and you can change the world. Or make one.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“Regret lingers on. Regret fractures our souls into many. Maybe, just maybe, the counterpower to creation isn’t destruction—that’s just entropy, just natural. No, the opposite of creation isn’t destruction; it’s regret. It’s the stories we never tell that carry the most weight.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons