Kristi

“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then learning one day that you never had a master, and returning to work all the same.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“For every ten who worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like us.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Penned creatures suffer, but the more so when they imagine a pen what ain’t there”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“It is a great disadvantage to spend one’s time worrying about what may go wrong. When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would’ve prepared one in some way. This is not the case. Instead, the senseless disorder of one’s thoughts grows more and more uncontrollable as one rehearses the events that befell, to no good effect since nothing can undo the damage, no amount of muddled thinking can ever result in any other outcome.”
― Caroline Stevermer, The Grand Tour