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

“Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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

“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child