melissa

“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I'll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You’ve changed my life for the better, Rook.” - Levi Jamison”
― Emery Paige, Sidelined Love

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe