Kate

“She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she simply did not have the trick of it, the row that cleared the air, and could never quite believe that hard words could be unsaid or forgotten.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“He was making one of the advances typical of early adulthood: the discovery that there were new values by which he preferred to be judged.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.

- a mermaid escapist II.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One