Izzy Mannella

“Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“For Aldo, to love something was to study it; to devote every spare thought to understanding it.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She's never lived anywhere but in books and memories.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“For years my goal was to minimize myself—to fold and refold myself into a polygon of nothingness, to be too insignificant to be remembered. I wanted to appear innocent; I wanted to be thought of as quiet and harmless; I was worried always about how my very existence was terrifying to others and I did everything in my power to diminish myself, my light, my soul.
I wanted so desperately to placate the innocent. I wanted so badly to appease the assholes who judged me without knowing me that I lost myself in the process.
But now?
Now, I laugh. Out loud.
Now, I don't give a shit.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me