B Machine

“Hop thought it was easy for people who had led happy lives to be good and kind. But people who only knew unkind words and pain had to hold on to the tiny scraps of kindness they were given. They didn’t have any spare.”
― Frances White, The Bone Door

“They ask something small of you. A thing you would prefer not to do, but is not so terrible. You think you are working your way up, but in fact they are changing you. Moulding you into what they think you should be, one compromise at a time.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting