Anne Secher

“It is what originally caught my interest, but i lose interest in everything sooner or later. Everything save you. Because in you, i found my match. In you, i found my equal.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Soldiers don't cry on a battlefield. They move forward. They fight.”
― Gosia Nealon, The Last Sketch

“Who are you?”
A long, slow silence, and then the voice laughed. Konstantin wasn’t sure he heard it; he might only have seen it, in the quiver of the shadows on the wall.
“The bringer of storms,” murmured the voice with a certain satisfaction. “For once you so summoned me. But long ago men called me the Bear—Medved.”
“You are a devil!” whispered Konstantin, clenching his hands. All the shadows laughed. “As you like. But what difference is there between me and the one you call God? I too revel in deeds done in my name. I can give you glory, if you will do my bidding.”
― Katherine Arden

“It took me a long time to
realize that life isn’t about feeling the pain of others but understanding
the pain they are going through and why.”
― Jude Morrow, Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad?: A Memoir