Kylee

“Are you saying that he’s so feral that one small right hook is enough to send him on an explosive killing rampage?” She thought about this while folding a blanket. It took her a while to make up her mind. “Yes,” she decided.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I said a secret prayer during the ceremony. I silently thanked Him for giving me such unexpected, undeserved happiness. I saw things clearly now, I understood His greater purpose. God hadn’t abandoned me during my childhood, when I had felt so alone and so scared—He had been keeping Kathy hidden up His sleeve, waiting to produce her, like a deft magician.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“our ability to contain ourselves directly depends on our mother’s ability to contain us—if she had never experienced containment by her own mother, how could she teach us what she did not know?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient