Livy

“Where’s Kit, really?” Ty said, “I keep asking, but no one will tell me.”
Magnus looked up. “Kit’s all right. He’s with Tessa and Jem.”
“I know,” Ty said. His voice shook. “I know, but—can I say good-bye to him? If I could just talk to him once—”
“He’s already gone,”
Magnus said. “He didn’t want to say good-bye to you. To anyone really, but I suspect it was mostly you.”
― Cassandra Clare

“He was getting better at giving his family the lies they wanted. That wasn't the same as the lies becoming easier.

It wasn't Julian's kind of lying. Paul couldn't invent a new reality from whole cloth, much less pretend to believe it. But he'd developed a surprising intuition for which fragments of himself his family could tolerate, and he was able, with effort, to slice away every extraneous truth until only the acceptable parts of him were visible.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“When we believe, we hold on to what we think is true. But when we have a conviction, that truth holds on to us.”
― June Hur, The Silence of Bones

“I hope you looked west while I was looking east, and that for a moment you met my eyes without knowing it. I know you never look away, ever when your eyes are closed, but I'm never certain you can see what's really there.
I miss you to pieces.
Yours Always
- J”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights