Alfonso Cárdenas

“Because she’s Jade fucking Daniels. And a thousand men like you can’t even reach up to touch her combat boots.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Someday I’ll wake up and it’ll be like my life’s already over, because it’ll be dozens of years from now already and I’m still the same. Sets of mirrors facing each other, expanding space and me and every moment I’ve been here. Nobody knows me, because I haven’t left anything for them, and I can’t stand to look half of them in the eye.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

“You know what I hate most about you, Marion? You're consistently, eternally wrong… and yet you're still alive. All those lost battles, every year of that entire lost war, but somehow you always cobble together enough dumb luck to walk away unscathed. The eternal sole survivor. You don't deserve that kind of luck. Nobody does.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things