Dani

“It’s not bad,” Arlys repeated, and though her chin wobbled, she managed a smile. “I’m going to say it.” “It’s just a scratch?” “Right. Just a flesh wound.”
― Nora Roberts, Year One

“Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one—”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“a particularly vulgar gesture.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa