Karen

“What strange beasts people are, she thought. We adjust to everything so quickly. Perhaps we would even get used to Hell.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Skinful of Shadows

“Humans are strange, adaptable animals, and eventually get used to anything, even the impossible or unbearable. ... Terror is tiring, and difficult to keep up indefinitely, so sooner or later it must be replaced with something more practical.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Skinful of Shadows

“Absolutes are the hallucinations of culture.”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera

“My family taught me, too, to begin every burial with these words, which my mother said were true of everyone who lives long enough to walk and talk—from the most honorable person lying here, down to the very worst.” He closed his eyes and touched his chest. “ ‘How they tried,’ ” said Rafe. “ ‘How long, how hard they tried.”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera