Denise

“These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green