Bri

“I don't want your prayers, he said.
What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:
They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to dispair.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin