Tattooed Bibliophile

“Thousands of years of language and literature and we haven't come up with something better than these two, tired words - I'm sorry - to express sympathy for a loss.”
― Shamim Sarif, The Athena Protocol

“Maybe we need thousands of smaller heroes every day every day instead of the occasional big one.”
― Shamim Sarif, The Athena Protocol

“I'll become someone new. Through blood and pain and ink, I can be remade.”
― Alice Broadway, Ink

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History