Cherei

“Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk else is killed is really the more courageous choice.”
― Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

“about closing the distance that had developed between them, due to neglect, due to not noticing the passing of time, having little or no practice at being proper sisters.”
― Judy Leigh, The Old Girls' Network

“London’s lost rivers had taken on a romantic sort of mystery in popular awareness. The idea of waters flowing on and on in the endless darkness under the city streets was deliciously eerie, and of course lost and abandoned tunnels and caverns had always appealed to a certain sort of adventurous spirit. Even the names were evocative: the Tyburn, the Fleet, the Effra, the Westbourne, once broad streams in their own right—now bound and channeled in the bowels of the ancient city, but not entirely forgotten. The old rivers flowed now in a muffled roar and chime of water through cathedrals of tile and brick, unseen arches and coigns of gorgeous complexity guiding and shaping their eventual journey to the sea.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“You’re here for a reason—and it’s not to fail and die.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City