Austen Lea

“Why does everyone else just assume we all see the world the same way?!”
― Kamome Shirahama, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]

“Rather than saying you have no idea what to do…you’re asking what you can do to make it work. That’s a big step forward. Good job.”
― Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 6

“You are words on paper,” Simon whispers, to himself or to Zachary or to the words above them clinging to their respective papers. “Be careful what stories you tell yourself.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Two things that are each complete, yet cannot exist without each other. Things which can never be separated, yet can never be together. Like life, existence, light. And shadow, nothingness, death. For each to exist, for us to remain ourselves, there is something akin to a boundary-- a wall, a barrier. That allows those two halves of a whole to forever stay apart. Avoidance is bliss. To meet is to cause each other unhappiness. To cause strife and suffering. Just like it did for us. That may simply be the fate of this world. But if you meet and can accept that suffering, the two may finally become one. In the end that may be the curse.”
― Nagabe, とつくにの少女 11