Aadya

“Life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V. E. Schwab

“She said no, and learned how much the word was worth.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“How do you thank a brother who refused to let you go, seized your hand and wrenched you upward, just as you had decided to stop and kicking and sink?”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Someone once said to me birth was the most ordinary and extraordinary thing you’ll ever experience, simultaneously, and death is the same. The fact of yours sits there, implacably, being so banal and so mind-blowingly strange at the same time.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night