Jess

“The thing is, when you start smoking, you think you’ve bought a fun baby dragon. You think you’ve charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later, you wake up with your lungs full of cinder and shite, and the bed on fire, and you realize the dragon grew up—and burned your fucking house down.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.”
― C.C. Hunter, Awake at Dawn

“She's looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn't magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid. All forests are magic.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”
― Justina Chen Headley