Ana

“Happiness is not an end point. It is not a long-hidden treasure marked with an X on a map. It is not a reward, handed to you after years of diligent service. Happiness is like being in your mother’s womb—warm, safe, buoyant—with no inkling of when it will end and why.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“We think we need words because it is in our nature to define, to decode, to try to understand by piecing things apart and labeling them, like specimens in a museum.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life’ll give you and that pours out of you when you’re given the best instead.… There aren’t many roses around anymore because they need more love than people have to give ’em, to make ’em flower, and the only thing that’ll stand in for love is magic, though it ain’t as good, and you have to have a lot of magic, like a sorcerer.…”
― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

“we despise most those who know us at our worst. It’s true. It’s so true.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin