Alvaro Stayer

“To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“He’d wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God

“And here’s why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo