#ya

Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#qeya #sci-fi #ya-novella #sci-fi

Gem thought it would be hilarious to shear his brother’s fine hair off while he was sleeping. Ever since then Menai decided he actually preferred the Mohawk. Both had inherited their mother’s Western Continent coloring, a blend of pearly white and sea grass green that set their bold sea-colored eyes off handsomely. And since they had grown old enough to realize this, they had become a pair of pre-pubescent manipulating terrors. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#qeya #sci-fi #ya-novella #sci-fi

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed. ↗

— Mike Carey

#god #lucifer #yahweh #greed

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. ↗

— Toba Beta

#bitterness #disappointment #take-root #vengeance #disappointment

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#paranormal #romance #ya #young-adult #fairies

Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#brand-loyalty #branding #advertising

The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it's a pale second to the violation I feel that she read my most private, raw thoughts and destroyed them. She broke into my carefully guarded heart, stole the only remaining connection I had to Matt, and turned it into a monstrosity. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#guilt

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone. ↗

— Richard Yates

#honesty #yates #honesty

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#truth #despair