gentlemischief

“Does anyone remember Plato’s definition of Justice in the Republic? Justice, in a society, is when each level of a hierarchy works within its place and is content with it. A poor man who wishes to rise above his station is only making himself needlessly miserable. And the wise poor have always known this, the same as do the wise rich.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I love him exactly as much as I wish to,” Masha replied. And no more than that, she did not add.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“No. I don’t like names, or titles. They come with expectations. And I so often fall short of them.”
― Alex Aster, Skyshade

“She’d clearly learned to conceal her sharper edges with whatever mimicry of innocence she had at her disposal, but that look, unlike her falser faces, could never be disguised. For Lev, it had the same effect as a bird of prey circling overhead.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy