Cheyenne Curl

“Sorry I missed you at the station. And that I'm too afraid to say anything that I can't take back.
I am full to the brim of myself, infatuated and governed by the weight of my own emotions.
It's not what you deserve, but I fear that this creature is not capable of love or worthy in return. It's filled with shame and need and made you reconsider yourself and cry when he left and desperate to be whole and to be needed even if you only like water, even if only in the most carnal, the most basic. We are all animals, in the end, reduced to this. I watched it shatter in pieces across the hardwood floor. Is this love or fear?”
― Richard Siken

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“In your world I am ashes, I am ancestors, my memories and hopes and dreams have gone to build the City of Bones. In your world, I am lucky, because I do not have to live in a world without you. But in this world, I am you. I am the twinless twin. So I can tell you this:
When your twin leaves the earth you live on, it never turns the same way again: the weight of their soul is gone, and everything is off balance. The world rocks under your feet like an unquiet sea. I can't tell you it gets easier. But it does get steadier; you learn how to live with the new rocking of the new earth, the way sailors gain sea legs. You learn. I promise.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows