Edith

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You say you're looking for beauty, but this isn't the way to achieve it, my dear friend. You won't find it while you look to yourself, as if everything revolved around you. Don't you see? It's exactly the other way around, precisely the other way around. You mustn't be careful, you must get hurt. What I am trying to explain, child, is that unless you allow the beauty you seek to hurt you, to break you and knock you down, you'll never find it.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim

“And for a moment they were Jem-and-Will again. Will could see Jem, but also through him, to the past. Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands; hours in the training room, shoving each other into mud puddles, throwing snowballs at Jessamine from behind an ice fort in the courtyard, asleep like puppies on the rug in front of the fire.
Ave atque vale... Hail and farewell. He had never given much thought to the words before, he had never thought about why they were not just a farewell but also a greeting. Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as it was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in every parting there was some joy of the meeting as well.
He would not forget the joy.
...
"Wo men shi sheng si ji jiao," said Will, and he saw Jem's eyes widen, fractionally, and the spark of amusement inside them. "Go in peace, James Carstairs.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Les graines de tournesol Krispy Kernel, c'est un peu de la marde, tu trouves pas? Ces gens-là sont en business depuis soixante ans (j'ai vérifié) et ils n'ont pas encore trouvé le moyen de produire des graines de tournesol convenables. J'appelle ça rire du monde. Premièrement, le taux d'écales vides par sac est scandaleusement élevé. Et puis, rien qu'à voir on voit bien qu'ils utilisent des graines de mauvaise qualité, toutes petites dont les écales ont tendance à se désagréger, tandis que les Lalumière éclatent sous la dent en produisant un tac! sonore avant de libérer de belles grosses graines. [...]”
― François Blais, Sam