Crime works best, he says, not with overpowering force but when nobody knows it’s being committed.

Another book in the “weird girl fiction” space

When something bad is actually happening, it's easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn't real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.

Because it felt feminine to put emotion before rationality, to fall madly in love, to surrender one’s own existence to support a man.

We’re living in what they call the ‘information age,’ but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own.

Don’t let him make His own selfishness someone else’s burden to bear.

A “no-nonsense” woman is “cold,” “bitchy,” and disliked. If she expresses frustration or anger at being treated unfairly, or even asks for help, she is considered less competent and less deserving of pay or reward.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

I always find more answers in a forest than in my own hot attic of a mind.

There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: ‘Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.’

Something about today feels so full of hope.

You listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue. That’s good advice.

Unpaid soldiers become angry. Angry, unpaid soldiers forget their loyalty.

Those broken by worldly violence and loss did not deserve to be shunned when they struggled to rise once more.

He had made mistakes in the past, bad calls, but fighting against tyranny, against brutality, would never be the wrong choice.

The point is… how do you know how to rate a book? How do you understand what others feel when they rate books? It’s difficult to know across the board, but at Beguiled By Books, here’s what the Star Ratings mean.

You only need to look up to see the best proof of endless possibilities.

If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.

Perhaps the most accurate term for happiness, then, is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to “happiness” but to “human flourishing.”

They subtly reflected shifts in other people’s moods and attitudes.