Kat

“The joy of realizing that someone loved me that much made my heart want to burst. I tried to make a joke to hold back the tears welling up in my eyes. "Uncle," I said, "that's not exactly dialogue you should deliver while you're eating shredded squid.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“He hemmed and hawed for a minute, then said, "I'm sure you've got plans already, but I wanted you to know, I cleaned out the spare room at the museum last year."
"What?"
"The spare room in the back," he said patiently. "Next to my workshop. I knwo your mom's probably real excited to have you back home" - this was a profound lie, and we both knew it - "but you know, with the gout, I don't get around as easy as I used to right now, and if you wanted to stay here for a bit, I thought I'd offer.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“Yeah, well, what's the point of sailing free, choosing your own horizon, if you won't choose what's right over what's easy?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse

“If you’re hurt, you’re hurt. It doesn’t matter if anyone else thinks you don’t have a good enough reason. Pain doesn’t require approval.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse