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“A moment passed before he peeked at my necklace, and his eyes became tender. “You know, Leen . . . love isn’t always a crazy, obsessive emotion. Love is understanding and respecting each other, and giving space to grow and sacrifice and compromise. It’s about being there for each other, not running away. And it certainly isn’t treason.”
― The Crossing Gate
― The Crossing Gate
“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Legendary
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Legendary
“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”
“So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”
“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”
“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“Whenever I try to forget you, Erick, something brings you back into my memory. And whenever I want to drive emotions away from me, they quickly return as thoughts or dreams . . . or the words of an old woman.
Perhaps loneliness has forced me to hang on to the faint spectrum of your memory—kept my heart longing in painstaking eagerness. But no . . . no more, and not again. How long can my heart withstand the seesaw of emotions?
If I had one wish, I would want you and me to be two parallel lines, either on flat or spherical earth . . . never to meet.”
― The Crossing Gate
Perhaps loneliness has forced me to hang on to the faint spectrum of your memory—kept my heart longing in painstaking eagerness. But no . . . no more, and not again. How long can my heart withstand the seesaw of emotions?
If I had one wish, I would want you and me to be two parallel lines, either on flat or spherical earth . . . never to meet.”
― The Crossing Gate
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