Caitlin Eckerman

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Life took longer to reassemble that it did to blow apart, but that didn’t meant wouldn’t be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven