“With every step I felt lighter. An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Circe
― Circe
“It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”
― Thirteen Reasons Why
― Thirteen Reasons Why
“Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.”
― The Black Obelisk
― The Black Obelisk
“They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the conversation. 'You'd better bring me up to date because...' He turned to order lunch in perfect French, and then turned back to Woodward. '...our cocks are on the chopping block now and I just want to know a little bit more about this.”
― All the President’s Men
― All the President’s Men
“Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.”
“It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.”
― The Night Circus
“It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.”
― The Night Circus
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