Victoria

“What does it feel like?" My words a whisper.
She smiles at me, and I know I'll remember it for the rest of my life.
"Like wings on the wind, baby.”
― C.J. Leede, American Rapture

“There are two Gods,' she'd told me once, sotto voce in case our father heard her uttering such an impious thought. 'There is the God of inside — the God of churches, and prayer meetings and all that — and then there is the God of outside, the God that lives in the trees and in the dirt. And the insects, and the birds, and the things that eat them too.”
― Elliott Gish, Grey Dog: Library Edition

“Lying was a sin, apparently, unless you did it outrageously and persistently enough, in which case it qualified as scripture.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“Tasks can carry you through many hours of a life otherwise too empty to contemplate. And books, the right ones, can nearly make you forget what it is you’re trying to forget in the first place.”
― C.J. Leede, American Rapture