Isma Shaheen

“Someone made us. Someone made us, and then they separated us because we were dangerous when we were together.”
― 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

“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“Rather than asking him to repeat himself, I waited. It was a trick I learned from my father, letting the silence thicken until it was suffocating.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife