“This is a love story with too many beginnings. I refuse to think about how it is going to end.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― The Giver of Stars
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― The Giver of Stars
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, 'I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.”
― The Life of Charlotte Brontë
― The Life of Charlotte Brontë
“He looked like a bad decision some unfortunate person was about to make.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
“It’s strange, the patchwork stories we tell someone when we want them to catch up, a shortcut to knowing us, as if such a thing were possible.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
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