Vanessa

“Reality came with a bite, a pinch, a kiss. Longing, loss, resentment, and the most impossible of all, passion. Passion was real. It wasn't an obsession with the thing you couldn't get better at, like my dad had coldly told me long ago. It was the only thing you could get better at.
Without passion, there could be no growth.”
― Cori McCarthy, Now a Major Motion Picture

“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“The kindest thing you can do for the dead... is to weave their names into art.”
― Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

“He can give everyone what they so desperately crave: hope for a life beyond death... Love poems fall out of fashion over time, often turning maudlin in the ears of future listeners. Humans' enjoyment of satire and humor is equally fickle, and epic adventures stop seeming so epic when new heroes accomplish new feats. Yet mortals' fear and bewilderment of death will never die - not as long as people keep dying.”
― Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale