Isma Shaheen

“People who say “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” don’t understand how words can be stones, hard and sharp-edged and dangerous and capable of doing so much more harm than anything physical.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“The internal battle between doing the right thing and doing the honest thing and doing the tempting thing was an ongoing one,”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“Getting caught in a lie is so much worse than saying nothing.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife