Emma Shamrock

“Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“How, he wondered, did humanity ever get along without duct tape?”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus