“It’s easy to be brave. Harder to know when not to fight.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“ Wait and see. The world is not always cruel.”
― Nettle & Bone
― Nettle & Bone
“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possesses by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.' (Landscapes of the Heart by Motojiro Kajii)”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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