Justine

“When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Earth wants to be comfortable. The more comfortable someone is, a society is, the less likely they are to seek change, even positive change.”
― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination