BADASSBOOKWORM

“You can be fragile like a flower or fragile like a bomb. The choice is yours!”
― Tomi Lahren, Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable

“If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open door away whispering, Come in, come in. Here is the land you’ve never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you’re frightened, to play when you’re bored, to rest when the world seems unkind.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One