Alis Meece

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.” ​- ​GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Trauma does that, I thought. It’s an explosion with your heart at the center. It changes everything all at once.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Butcher's Masquerade

“Things were always changing, even when they didn’t feel like it. Alice wondered if no one ever felt as old as they were because it happened so slowly, and you were only ever one day slower and creakier, and the world changed so gradually that by the time cars had evolved from boxy to smooth, or green taxis had joined yellow ones, or MetroCards had replaced tokens, you were used to it. Everyone was a lobster in the pot.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Life—life was pain. Pain, and joy. Joy because of the pain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash