Alex

“They were Dieu’s favorite lines, and she was almost afraid to look up to see how the tiger took them. When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”
― Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

“If you try hard, you will always see results, and it will never be wasted no matter what you end up doing in life.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“It was the dogs she wanted. Perhaps she might have built a man out of bones, but she had no love of men any longer.
Dogs, though…dogs were always true.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“There were no words, no gestures great enough to restore what was lost, but that was not the purpose. My defiant soul had to learn that a desire for contentment in the face of loss was no sin, no matter how vast the failure. For the sake of everything else I loved, I must find a way to acceptance, and life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay