Nikki

“No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Yes, I want your anger. Be as mad at me as you need to, just not from a forest away. Stay with me. Make me suffer for it. I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I’ll make sure you are not a villain in this story. I will make sure you are nothing at all so that you are forgotten.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The only thing more dangerous than a man with a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter