The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Category: Quotes
“What’s your evidence? What makes you such a screwup?”
“Um.” I look up at her. “I mean . . . I vomited on your boss.”
“Okay, but look at all the people you didn’t vomit on.”
I nod slowly. “That’s a low bar for success.”
Setting the bar
“But you didn’t just say you were sorry. You didn’t do that again.”
“We had other fights.”
“Yeah,” I said. “But we never had the same fight twice.”
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
Learning from mistakes
Because if we were all doing the best we can, then there’d be no need for karmic justice in the first place.
Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer
The best you can be
“It’s just— You never told me how beautiful the world is, seen from the sky.” “You were walking on it,” Snap said. “I thought you knew.”
The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen
Perspective
Her expression reminded him of the Sahara: one did not always see movement in the desert– not until it crept up and surprised you.
Notorious by Minerva Spencer
hidden
Only the wealthy had the luxury of minding things; the rest simply ducked their heads, bit their tongues, and did what needed to be done.
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Class divide
Babette knew better than to let a little pain hold her back. She knew that joy and sorrow walked side by side. She knew that being alive meant risking one for the other .
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
Joy in life
No apologies
It was war, he said. I make no apologies for that, as I received none.
Orestin’s Own by L Alyssa Austin
The last thing she needed was to fall in love with her prison.
Court of Bitter Thorn by Kay L Moody
