Ryan Egan

“I am,” Will said, “perhaps, not someone to take advice from if you are seeking happiness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“It takes a certain amount of desperation before people finally stop caring about their immediate futures and start to look at the long term.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“It means, ah, death-love, death-desire. It’s hard to translate. It means you have moods where you absolutely want to destroy yourself. Not as some self-pitying idle notion, either. As a certainty!”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves