Cassie

“Greed and hope aren't opposites. Greed and hope are twins grabbing for the same thing, one in fear and one in faith.”
― Eiren Caffall, All the Water in the World

“Evil comes from elsewhere, Matthew Houlihan believes. Evil is other people. She will leave him this illusion, mostly because she envies his ability to keep finding comfort in simple, black-and-white views of the world.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Back when Aislyn was a teenager, she often thought of her mother as dull. Since then Aislyn has come to understand that women sometimes have to pretend to be dull so that the men around them can feel sharper.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“That was how I learned that the world changes between heartbeats; that life is never an absolute, but always a wager.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here