Elliot Benson

“Love does not work in convenience. Or any kind of sense.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles