Ladiibbug

“I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark!"
"You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me!" said Stacy indignantly.
"Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them.

(That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to save any mortal soul: books of witchery, augury, alchemy; books with wand-wood in their spines and moon-dust on their pages; books older than stones and wily as dragons. We give people the books they need most, except when we don’t.)”
― Alix E. Harrow, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

“F--- that," she interrupted. "If everyone always waited till they felt ready, we'd all still be fish living on trees.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Finder