January

“I was born knowing how to do three things - how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Some people get so used to looking out at life from the edge of their cage that they stop seeing the bars.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“To see Peggy rushing toward him like that, for him to be needed, to be an active participant in someone else’s life, to think that maybe he was more than just a lump of carbon being slowly ushered toward an unvarnished coffin; the feeling was one of pure, almost painful happiness, like a desperate embrace squeezing air from his lungs, and it was then that the realization hit him: he might not know what the future held—pain and loneliness and fear might still yet grind him into dust—but simply feeling the possibility that things could change for him was a start, like feeling the first hint of warmth from kindling rubbed together, the first wisp of smoke.”
― Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone

“Scars are tallies of the battles you’ve survived.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore