Charisma

“President Duterte said kill the addicts, and the addicts died. He said kill the mayors, and the mayors died. He said kill the lawyers, and the lawyers died. Sometimes the dead weren’t drug dealers or corrupt mayors or human rights lawyers. Sometimes they were children, but they were killed anyway, and the president said they were collateral damage.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“Flowers are better than people.”
― Julie Soto, Forget Me Not

“How deeply you must love someone that death itself fears taking them?”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods

“Only with kids who had gone through similar experiences could she really open up about what had happened, and how it made her feel. And now she’d gone and closed the door on that opportunity, and it was painful.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror