Mel

“He has a chronic condition. They found the stick up his ass when we were just kids and the doctors said we couldn't remove it without killing him. Naturally, we all tried as hard as we could to pull it out, but the stubborn bastard never gave us an inch. See, he's a tight-ass, too. It's tragic, really, when you think about it. Sometimes I lay awake at night trying to figure out which came first… The stick, or the tight ass.”
― Penelope Bloom, His Banana

“Sometimes I find the only way to ease the worst forms of pain is to damage myself in a different way. Distract my attention from the things that can and will break me. A little hurt to help me heal.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“You can’t allow the past to steal your present, but if you siphon off just the right amount, it can help fuel your future.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“The short answer to what's going on is that the world is resetting itself, like a computer or an errant piece of machinery. First it purges the problem, then it resets and continues." "What's the problem?" "Fear. Simple as that. Fear. There's so much of it that it's gumming up the system,
obstructing the world from its true purpose.”
― John F.D. Taff, Earth & Ember