Meghan Young

“Take happiness where you can,” he said. “It seldom lasts—’course, neither does sorrow, right?”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then.”
― Daniel O'Malley, The Rook