Ryan

“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“People don't find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And a few seconds after that, the entire building starts collapsing in on itself. I watch over Hudson’s shoulder as wood and glass and stone and metal come tumbling down, the arena literally tearing itself apart piece by piece.
Hudson’s words come back to me now, as does that moment when I was returning his powers to him—the moment when I realized just how infinite they really are.
The amount of power it takes to tear the arena down and hurt no one.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold