Lily

“somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“as ever, people tolerate in their friends what they deplore in their enemies,”
― Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

“How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong?
I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems