Katlyn Addams > Katlyn's Quotes

“Well, after that she would do her best. That was the only way. You did not want things for yourself. That made you small. That kept you safe. That meant you could move smoothly through the world without upsetting every applecart you came across. And if you were careful, if you were a proper part of things, then you could help. You mended what was cracked. You tended to the things you found askew. And you trusted that the world in turn would brush you up against the chance to eat. It was the only graceful way to move. All else was vanity and pride.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“That’s all love is, when you strip it down to the bare bones. A loaded gun to the temple with someone else’s finger on the trigger.”
― Laura Mauro, Sing Your Sadness Deep

“Upheavals are always hardest on the kind of people who meticulously plan their lives.”
― Gareth L. Powell, Light of Impossible Stars: An Embers of War novel

“war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“Man mistakes his own experiences as the canvas on which all truths are drawn.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy