Jenny Reed

“What did I seek in this asylum? To be with her again. To walk through this weird world laughing, swinging clasped hands together. Good. That was the plan, the motto and the bottom line.”
― Raymond St. Elmo, As I Was on My Way to Strawberry Fair

“I wondered if weakness wasn’t just as dangerous. The weak allowed evil to flourish.”
― Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

“Carve out your heart for it. In that moment, he would hear his instructor’s words. He would think of that little boy. Turn away, he’d beg his past self. But the boy takes the man’s hand every time. Death, after all, is inevitable. This is the tale of how a fallen one ascends. He does it in countless cascading decisions, over years, over centuries. He does it with the desperation of a starving soul willing to sacrifice anything, everything, for a single chance at redemption. But in the end, he loses her every time.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk

“Gideon had taught me that every weakness could become a strength if you embraced it enough. That the most resourceful minds would find the tools to sharpen nothingness to a blade if offered nothing else.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk