Lysander Grey

“Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“You are small. You have red hair. You don’t realize it yet, but you are about to set out on the most alarming episode of your life so far…”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese

“He would tell her she was beautiful and she'd call him a liar and they would argue until she gave in. He never let her win, never let her convince him she was right. He fought harder for her than she ever fought for herself.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore

“Now, however, on hard days, I can look at death kindly and not feel it as a beckoning force, but a gentle, distant rain sweeping toward me from the west, a rain I will find soaking the parched earth at my feet one day. One day. And I can think of that inevitable day without frantically trampling through the fields of flowers ahead of me while rushing to meet those curtains of falling water.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You