Isabel

“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement. To be still is to be… not alive. But”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“To write, you have to want something to survive you.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child