Jess d'Artagnan

“He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

“But the girl has something the others do not: a questionable amount of soul.
And a questionable amount of soul is a dangerous things. It makes people unpredictable, it can send them out in the darkness to seek things that others would never dare. It can keep the flame burning, long after it was supposed to go out.”
― Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“I’ve spent so long feeling numb that I forgot what it’s like to fight for something, even if it’s my own wants and desires.”
― Kayla Grosse, Rein Me In