Andy

“Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice,’” Andarna blatantly mocks him. “And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego.” “Go find a sheep and let the adults work.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The glorious imprecision of language, the impossible endeavour of saying what you mean to another. She sees, with benevolent distance, how hopeless and winsome it is to be in this skin. How human it is to attempt a futile expression of your innermost secrets to another by vibrating strings in your throat to make an avalanche of sentences. To laugh, to sing, to cry out loud. How we all wish so badly to be heard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“But that is the nature of grammar—it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots