“Because that’s all art is”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
“I have to create, or it was all for nothing. I have to create, or I will crumple up with despair and never leave my bed. I have to create because I have no other way of voicing this.” Her hand rested on her heart, and my eyes burned. “It is hard,” the weaver said, her stare never leaving mine, “and it hurts, but if I were to stop, if I were to let this loom or the spindle go silent …” She broke my gaze at last to look to her tapestry. “Then there would be no Hope shining in the Void.”
― A Court of Frost and Starlight
― A Court of Frost and Starlight
“I like to channel Ophelia in the lazy river, pretend I’m drowning in a Danish brook after a flimsy willow branch collapsed under my weight.”
― Love on the Brain
― Love on the Brain
“That’s the key, isn’t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it … that’s the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.” She gestured to the stars zooming past. “The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
― A Court of Silver Flames
“I’M SURE NOBODY GOES ON vacation expecting to be dismembered and put through a woodchipper, but some tourists are just assholes and deserve their fate.”
― Tourist Season: the new must-read dark romantic comedy from the author of Butcher & Blackbird
― Tourist Season: the new must-read dark romantic comedy from the author of Butcher & Blackbird
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