Blair Conrad

“too would have felt awful had I been there. Why didn’t you ask me to come with you?” “What’s the point of both of us being miserable?” “You would feel better because you would have had to make me feel better.”
― Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel

“Everyone wants to see a witch punish someone for stealing from her. A witch is a kind of justice in the world. It makes for a fine story. No one wants to admit the truth, for all it stares them plainly in the face."

"What's that?"

"Steal from a woman long enough, and a witch is what she'll become.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“To be in contact with someone else's pain was to risk feeling it yourself, unless you severed the connection by hating them. When most people's greatest desire was to avoid pain, of course they would rather hate.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“She had spent years blaming Eshonai; how strange to realize that all Venli truly needed to do to win her mother's praise was … well, be worthy of it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth