Perrine

“They cry, “But I WANT to be a writer!” And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It’s simple. Write.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Good hearts don't leave scars like that.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead