“Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The difference between life and death could be as simple and as uncomfortably slight as a step you take in either direction.”
― Maybe in Another Life
― Maybe in Another Life
“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“Come out and play with me, my star. I know you’re in there somewhere, burning away where you think no one can see you. Imagine how brightly you’d shine if you embraced all that fire.”
― What Lies Beyond the Veil
― What Lies Beyond the Veil
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