Sarah Jimenez

“It didn't help matters that Khalila suddenly broke down in tears. Even Glain seemed emotional. Jess was a little surprised by that. But the real question, Jess thought, is 'why I feel so little and they feel so much.' Maybe it was his upbringing. Maybe it was all the death he'd seen in the smuggling trade.
Or maybe he was just trying to keep it all locked in a small, dark box until he could face what he felt.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“The mind, without the brain, will finally have o learn to forgive the body.”
― Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

“The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read...a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice?”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“I was brain-dead. So disabled, yet blissed our. This, in stark contrast with what was to come- a heightened awareness of my shortcomings, a darkness to counter the lightness of those early weeks of recovery.”
― Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life