Skye

“Self-pity, in a world of famine and war, is an obscene self-indulgence.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“With pleasure,” Kinney deadpanned. “In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor.” Iko shrugged. “If you don’t want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles.”
― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

“The wounds would become her armor, and a constant reminder of her victory.
She might be broken. She might be crazy. But she would never be defeated”
― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

“This has been her life for the past fifty years, this striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right. This action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen