Bibliophile

“But the visions have taught me differently. Dad getting engaged to the
woman he cheated on Mom with taught me differently. Yes, falling in love
requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what
the ground looks like. They believe their landing will be soft. That the ground
is covered in soft stuff—feathers, down pillows, fluffy baby blankets, the
shaggiest shag carpeting. But I’ve seen the ground. It is covered in lethal
spikes fashioned from the bones of other jumpers.
The fall is not at all survivable.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing