laura ❀

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I won´t let my scars define me. Not anymore. From now on, they´re a symbol of what I have left to fight for.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Life isn't a destination. It's the continual practice of things that make you wiser and happier.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue