Richa

“All I've got at this point is me. I have to be enough.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“this is too funny:


I gape at them. “How the hell are you two so clean and pristine?”
“I don’t sweat,” Isera and Orion reply in unison.
Surprise flits across both of their faces as they exchange a glance. They quickly break eye contact and turn back to me, but the moment Orion can’t see Isera’s face, I swear amusement tugs at her lips for a second. I stare at them in stunned disbelief.
“I have ice magic,” Isera explains.
Orion shrugs. “I’m royalty.”
I frown at him. “What does that have to do with anything?”
“Royalty doesn’t sweat.” He flicks a nonchalant hand. “Sweating is for peasants.”
― Marion Blackwood, Realm of Wind and Vines

“Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband