Raquel

“We moved away to a place where the Ocean whispered no secrets, and the water sang no music.”
― Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“Maybe it's not about whether my crushes work out in the end. Maybe it never was. Maybe it's about letting myself have them. Letting myself feel love and lust and heartbreak, my own version of magnificent misery in the process, and never changing my heart for anyone's benefit but my own. I don't mind being the lover, the one who waits, but I won't hesitate to love myself with all I've got in the meantime.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“You don’t belong to them any more than the sea belongs to the boats that glide on her back.”
― Vita Ayala, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray