nadia ୨୧

“Falling for someone is like pulling a loose thread. It happens stitch by stitch. You feel whole most of the time even while the seams pop, the knots loosen, everything that holds you together coming undone. It feels incredible, this opening of yourself to the world. Not like the unraveling it is. Only afterward do you glance down at the tangle of string around your feet that used to be a person who was whole and self-contained and realize that love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I hate Olivia Jaeger. I fucking hate her, and I’d happily never love anything if I could hate her my whole life.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe