Shass

“I have a great deal of experience skinning my enemies,” he said, deadpan. “Do you have many enemies among the potatoes?” “Not any longer.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

“Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists

“I feel like you're a pit I can't climb out of. The clawing and craning skyway to try and find some shred of light is so exhausting, and it's so much easier to let the ghost of your arms pull me down and down and down. If I let myself remember how you taste, my breath gets hard, my body heaves. If I let myself consider you inside me, I can't function.

I don't know how I handed you this power, it makes me so insane that you have it. And I fucking know, I know it's probably just me and my own shit, that you don't have a damn thing to do with it. You're just some vessel holding all my sadness, glowing with the nuclear energy of my loneliness. If I try to imagine you letting me go, I don't feel free. I feel untethered, unbound. Like I'm nothing and nowhere. But if I imagine you holding me, I crumple.

I'm running out of ways to exist.”
― Kate Stayman-London, One to Watch

“Sarkis occasionally thought that his own mind believed he was an idiot. He only wished that he had evidence his mind was wrong.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart