Cate Triola

“What do you want?" Belbalm had asked her. Safety, comfort, to feel unafraid. I want to live to grow old, Alex thought as she pulled the curtains closed. I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“It is easier, doubtless, to go with the tide than to oppose it; but our object should be to divert the stream when we find that its course is pernicious.”
― Henry Cockton, Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

“Religious enthusiasm breeds no charity, being in its essence intolerant.”
― Henry Cockton, Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist