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“But if my conviction is a knife, the blade is a mirror I
must face myself in as I raise it. Who could I be, if I were one of them? How beautiful? How bad? And how secure? Maybe I, too, could be safe, veiled within layers of
frivolity and boredom and beauty.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“How could something the gods supposedly denied feel like a baptism? How could it feel like faith?”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Unleash the Merciless Storm

“Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“Yes, I am still breathing.
No, I am not living.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Any Man