Katie

“You overestimate my compassion, Elara, and underestimate how deeply mine you are. I would let the whole world burn if it kept you warm.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“Anger flared through Shane’s body, hot and sudden. They had lots of reasons to keep their relationship a secret, but those reasons seemed extremely unimportant now. What if Ilya had died? What if he had fucking died?
Shane would have died too. Alone, and secretly, and for the rest of his life.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“Whenever I do something really embarrassing. for days after the incident I live in a state of utter mortification. At night I close my eyes and my brain will yank me back to the deep well of my shame, projecting cringeworthy scenes in excruciating detail against my eyelids.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs in the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection