Eárin Devine

“Or maybe it’s her look of mockery, reminding me of that day last summer when I finally realized that people weren’t nice. That no one was nice. That everyone lied, and that my heart was just a token, and this universe was the one in the Black Nebula. The hopeless, terrible universe. The one no one wants to be in.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“His hand touches my back lightly, making me shiver. “Do you know what I admire about you?” Truly, I cannot imagine what he will say next. “That you never stopped being angry,” he tells me. “It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.” I hadn’t felt brave in the Court of Teeth. Or hopeful. I had felt only a clawing desperation, as though I was forever drowning in some vast sea, gulping seawater as I sank, and then just when I felt I was going to let myself drop beneath the waves, something would make me kick one more time. Maybe that thing was hate. Hating requires going on, even when you can no longer believe in any better future.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“And this is the impossible universe, where nothing good ever happens.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“That’s what my sister Taryn always says. She tells me that I remind her of her late husband.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir