Kate Cofflin

“If you live your life according to someone else’s rules, are you living then?”
― Roman Kurys, Infertat

“When someone’s lying, what’s important is not the content of the lie, but the reasoning behind it,”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Sentiments look different when they’re in cold hard print—the coldest, hardest print imaginable.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White