Friday

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“You don't have to do it just because I asked, Mouse."
I paused. The correct answer was, Yes, I know. The true answer was, Yes, I do.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“It was so strange and solemn and lonely, like a hollow temple of dead heathen gods.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas