Mon Zapata

“Era la enamorada de todas las novelas, la heroína de todos los dramas, la vaga "ella" de todos los libros de versos.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“You can be our Gandalf,” I said, remembering our conversation from weeks ago, and smiling.
“I’m only a year older than you. But I’ll take it as a compliment, if you let me be Dumbledore instead.”
“If you insist.” I shrugged. “But Dumbledore is more dead.”
“Point,” Daniel acknowledged.
“You’re neither, actually.” Jamie looked up from a file he was reading. “You’re a muggle—”
“Hey, now.”
“Which makes you Giles.”
Daniel considered it for a moment. “I’ll take it.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“And as I watched her dying, I don’t remember the look of surprise on her face or the fear in her eyes, or seeing any sadness in her at all. I remember seeing relief there instead.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Becoming of Noah Shaw

“Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Selected Poems and Letters