Jenny mcCallion

“I wouldn’t do that, if I were you.” His gaze travels up the strings to the control bar, which is cloaked in shadow. “Who controls you? Who would I find, if I climbed to the top, I wonder? Your father? Brother? Callum? Me? Perhaps your mother, or something more abstract—like duty, or honor. Has it ever occurred to you that you are the one pulling the strings? That you are binding yourself? That you could break free, if you wished it?” He drums his fingers along the arm of the throne. “Probably not.”
― Lauren Palphreyman, The Night Prince

“Love. Loathing. Same passion, different names,” he told her. “And how easily and swiftly the line can be blurred, don’t you think?”
― Kaylie Smith, Enchantra

“I’m not in love. I’m just…in trouble.” “Same thing,” he pointed out and I smirked.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.”
― Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives