Christine Lee

“It’s only in faerie tales that everything works out for the best with a magik spell or a prince’s kiss. It’s only in storybooks some little bastard picks up a sword and wields it like he was born to it. The rest of us? We have to work our arses off. And we might not ever taste triumph, but at least we dared to fail. We stand apart from those cowards whispering on the sidelines about how the strong did stumble, while never daring to set foot in the ring themselves. Victors are just folk who were never satisfied being vanquished. The only thing worse than finishing last is not beginning at all. And fuck finishing last.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“... but that was comfort lent in catastrophe. Now, in the absence of tragedy, we couldn't seem to find each other.”
― Lana Popović, Fierce Like a Firestorm

“Of course I do,' said the Roly-Poly Bird. 'It's no good going to a country and not knowing the language.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“But what is grief, if not love persevering?”
― Laura Donney