Aries Reads Too Much

“You can take the girl from the gutter, but not the gutter from the girl. Sadly, the same can be said of the glitter.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“But sadly, she had a massacre to oversee, and the tides of time wouldn’t be kept waiting by sentimentality.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“Her magic was as blunt as she was: like a nuke hidden in a birthday cake.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train

“New York might run on Dow Jones, lattes, dollar signs, and neon lies, but what beats in its breast is it’s people: it’s hip-hop, it’s bodegas, it’s art, it’s Union Square grifters, it’s subway mariachi, it’s two-jobs-and-night-school-thank-you-I’m-fine mothers, it’s daughters full of dreams of making it big, it’s multicolored sons and their hopes blazing bright as a meth tweaker’s eyes.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train