Annika

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I am not walking away again. If I kiss you, if I touch you again, I will not be able to go back to the way things are now.” The next breath he took trembled as much as I was. “I won’t be able to pretend that you aren’t my everything”.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Burning Shadow

“You don’t need to worry about me, Peaches. I’m always going to come back to you. That’s a promise.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Burning Shadow

“The monster is me and I am the monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars