Cassandra

“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never been in such a family, then you can't know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla

“I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.”
― Albert Borris, Crash Into Me

“Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.”
― Hannah Wright

“True friendship never questions what it costs you.”
― Stephen Richards