Jess Milner

“There are things that wait for us, patiently, in the dark corridors of our lives. We think we have moved on, put them out of mind, left them to desiccate and shrivel and blow away; but we are wrong. They have been waiting there in the darkness, working out, practicing their most vicious blows, their sharp hard thoughtless punches into the gut, killing time until we came back that way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“They want a leader, and if the Reaper of Mars decides to come back from the dead here...you won't have an army, you'll have a tide at your heels.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink