Chinesebun

“So, three months after my training begins, I take the test in a bright room next to a noisy mouse of a Goldbrow girl who incessantly taps her stylus on a jade bracelet. She may be part of the test for all I know. When she's not looking, I snatch the stylus from her fingers and hide it down my sleeve.

I am a Helldiver of Lykos. So yes, I can steal a stupid girl's stylus without her knowing anything about it. She gawks about as if magic has been done. Then she begins to whine. They don't give her another stylus, so she runs out in tears. Afterward, the Penny Proctor looks at his datapad and rewinds a video from a nanoCamera. He looks at me and smiles. Such traits are apparently admirable.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Friends must be free. My tormenting you to find it would build a worse barrier between us than your hiding it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I called Patrick a few days after finishing Get Back. I told him what had happened to me, and he immediately said that my health is more important than a bunch of songs. I almost cried. Patrick then put an instant four-week hold on working on these songs any further so I could get back on my feet. As of this writing, I am able to walk again.”
― Joe Trohman

“Two is for discipline, heedless of trial;
Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile;
Four for fidelity, facing ahead;
Five for tradition and debts to the dead;
Six for the truth over solace in lies;
Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies;
Eight for salvation no matter the cost;
Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth