Samantha

“The things men will do in pursuit of their egos. If they'll tear down countries for it, maybe they could do something good with it, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Our life settled into a pulse, a heartbeat, a collection of breaths. In the silence between them, I memorized the cadence of Max's barefoot steps padding down the hallways at night, the way one single muscle in his throat twitched when he was stressed, the whisper of a laugh that always followed one of my quips (however unfunny). I learned that one side of his smile aways started first - the left side, a fraction of a second before the right - and that he loved ginger tea above all else and the list of things he wasn't made for.
And, in turn, he quietly memorized me, too. I knew he did, because one day I realized he had long ago stopped asking me how I took my tea and we mysteriously always had a never-ending stock of raspberries, even though I knew he didn't like them.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“A performance shows people a pleasant lie,' I replied. 'Tonight I shoe them an ugly reality.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“This realization - the realization that my goal, and the things I chose to sacrifice in my pursuit of it, no longer belonged to me alone - crushed me so suddenly that I could feel myself swaying beneath this new responsibility.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds