Machteld

“You are young to stand so deeply in the shadow.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“There is success,” I say. “And there is failure. The land in between is for those too weak to live. Duty first, unto death.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Sadness is a helpless garrison against the blindness of tragedy.”
― Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

“Between men and women," as Jenny Fields once said, "only death is shared equally.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp