Ladiibbug

“I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark!"
"You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me!" said Stacy indignantly.
"Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I was never bored except in the company of others.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them.

(That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to save any mortal soul: books of witchery, augury, alchemy; books with wand-wood in their spines and moon-dust on their pages; books older than stones and wily as dragons. We give people the books they need most, except when we don’t.)”
― Alix E. Harrow, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018