alessandra

“It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."
She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

“The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the paper on his desk and I feel him looking at me without looking when he uses his grandfather’s words. “The narrator doesn’t respect the beauty of life and the world around her, so it crushes her into the ground and once she’s dead, she realizes everything she took for granted and didn’t see right in front of her while she was alive. She’s begging for another chance to live again so she can appreciate it this time.”
“And does she get that chance?” she asks Josh while I desperately focus on the poster of literary terms on the wall and wait for absolution. When it comes, I barely hear it.
“She does.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility