Anneke

“you see your face. you see a flaw. how. if you are the only one who has this face. – the beauty construct”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“You don't love people," he said. "You love what they do to you.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance