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

“Opposition is the germ of improvement.”
― Henry Cockton, Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist

“Are we to have a parcel of oligarchs squeezing the marrow out of very bones eternally?”
― Henry Cockton, Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist

“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.”
― Michael Moore