sydney ☆

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“I will say this once, angel, for I feel you should be warned. No man alive has ever loved a woman the way that I love you, and I would rather die, damned as I am, than disgrace us both with the pitiful, unrequited performance of my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“Dina was an angel, and yet faith felt so foreign to him. He supposed there wasn’t much to have faith in if you’d seen the Lord’s face. Angels didn’t need to believe in God; they needed to fear him.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels After Man