Eva ⚢

“He wanted to hopelessly entangle her soul with his until they were one and the same, to follow her to the bottom of the ocean, to rot beside her when death devoured them both.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Japanese Gothic

“Why does Charlotte stay? That is like asking—why stay inside a house on fire? Easy to say when you are standing on the street, a safe distance from the flames. Harder when you are still inside, convinced you can douse the blaze before it spreads, or rushing room to room, trying to save what you love before it burns.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“One can be alone without feeling lonely,” she muses. “One can feel lonely without being alone.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“But you cannot have what you want until you know what you want. And once you do know,” she adds, “it’s only a matter of what you’re willing to do to get it.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil