ace

“It all works beautifully, until it doesn't.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I would have had so much in having you and would have lost so much in losing you that I would no longer want anything.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“We’re being hard on ourselves in a way, he remarks, because both our lives involve some voluntary exposure to what other people might call defeat. Which I think requires a certain degree of courage.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven