Just_a_fish

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Because if this is to be my fate, I'm going to walk boldly into it on my own two feet.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club