Dark Princess

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies?
Phryne laughed.
No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues

“...I hate myself. I feel like an idiot saying it because, blah, blah, teen angst, boo hoo, but I do. I hate myself. Almost all the time. I try not to tell anyone because I don't want to burden them, but I feel like I'm falling farther and farther away from them. Like the well's getting deeper and I'm running out of energy to climb it and any minute now, any second, it's going to stop being worth even trying.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Next crisis, I'll be sure to invent a creative, lifesaving solution in two minutes while simultaneously stroking your ego so you won't feel overly threatened by a woman doing your job for you.”
― Gwendolyn Clare, Ink, Iron, and Glass