T.J.

“You kissed my hair while sticking me in the heart. But your house will break before I fall apart. -Punk”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“It was the most private thing we had left—held even closer than our bodies, because our bodies were searched, all holes and crevices and cavities in every horrible way that could be imagined. But no one could shake out the truth from inside us. They couldn’t search us for that.
Our guilt and our innocence were only our own, and she should know to keep it that way.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“an angry man can later become happy, a resentful man can become pleased, but a kingdom once destroyed can never be restored nor the dead brought back to life”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If I am spared,” he always said to Constance, “I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle