Effing

“It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

“In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders”
― L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me