Sage Winston

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“No. He'd do it now. If it broke him, then it broke him. No holding back. There's only one person in the world brave enough and forgiving enough to care for me. If I saved myself at his expense, what the hell would I be saving myself for?”
― Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters

“I want to belong to you, like a name. I want to be a thing people have to know to know you.”
― Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters

“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It's as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient