Emma Brink

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
― Jimmy Carter

“She was a non-active member of the Order of the Phoenix and did not fight.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― SenLinYu, Manacled