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My favorite: "I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed." - Psalm 34:4-5

"Sometimes romance is of less importance than the feeling of being absolutely safe: of knowing that nothing and no one can hurt you, because the person who loves you most in all the world will destroy them if they try." - A Red-Rose Chain, by Seanan McGuire

"War is a tragedy in motion. Everyone is innocent, and everyone is guilty, and the crows come for their bodies all the same." - A Red-Rose Chain, by Seanan McGuire

"He stole something precious and turned it into a weapon. That doesn’t make you the bad one. It doesn’t transform your precious thing into something that is innately evil." - Chimera, by Mira Grant

"We walk on the graves of our unborn selves, the futures we never got to live, and some of those people wouldn’t get along very well with the ones we actually decided to be." - Chimera, by Mira Grant

"Yo mama so hairy, you got a rugburn when you was born!" (I heard this one from an 8-year-old kid, when I was working as a teacher's aide. ?)

"Yo mama so hairy, you got a rug burn when you were born!" (I heard this one from an 8-year-old student, while I was working as a teacher's aide. ?)

"There was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far… Read More

When I hug my boyfriend, I'm small enough that he can rest his chin on the top of my head. I get to be creative about getting things off the top shelf. (All of my childhood tree-climbing pays off! ?) Long road trips in a packed car? Nbd. I can sit criss-cross-applesauce and be… Read More