KJ

“Truth is, people are just as fluid as time is. We adapt to our situation like water in a strangely shaped jug, thought it might take us a little while to ooze into all the little nooks. Because we adapt, we sometimes don't recognize how twisted, uncomfortable, or downright wrong the container is we've been told to inhabit. We can keep going the way for a while. We can pretend to fit that jug, nooks and all. But the longer we do, the worse it gets. The more it weighs on us. The more exhausted we become. Even if we're doing nothing at all, because simply holding the shape can take all the effort in the world. More, if we want to make it look natural.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks with the ever-smoothing touch of a recycled proxy living. In doing so, we make of our memories the gods in which we judge our current lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts - but these thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tend to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“I want you to know: never before in the history of women, magical or not, have they been more empowered, more in touch with profound universal forces, more capable of summoning by whatever means necessary that which is essential to their evolution and fulfillment.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch