Shell

“This was the state he strove for: relatively happy. Happiness could easily tip over into its antithesis and sadness was hard to overcome. One could maintain a fairly continuous state of relative happiness if one took it easy.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die

“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it’s not okay.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

“Some righteous men and women yet held faith, but they were scattered so far that none could see the other’s light, and it seemed the darkness had no end.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“We destroy the present while forgetting the past.”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered