Dand'li

“It shouldn’t have been surprising to her that when given the choice of whether to help others, many instead willfully chose to hurt them. As a child, she had been taught that it was the villains who made that choice, but now she realized it was actually the boastful kings and lords—the ones who accepted love but not responsibility.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Vanity, vanity, taught Madame D’Artois. Everything we treasure has a price. And everything we have will slip away. She told us we were dust and our lives brief as grass. We might understand this if we were truly wise—but I lacked wisdom.”
― Allegra Goodman, Isola

“My mind, often prone to suspicion and overthinking, cannot help catastrophizing.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Two Can Play

“When a childhood was ruled by the patterns of others, that child learned as an adult to heed them.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain