kathi

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“He is afraid the shame will outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Are you sure? For a moment you stopped breathing. Or do I just have that affect on you?”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary