Danna Olay

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
― Paulo Coelho

“How would it feel to know there were people who’d chosen to live as they felt, not as they appeared, and never looked back? Could she bear their happiness, as shunned as they were? Was she brave enough? Was”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“To be seen but not known was perhaps the loneliest feeling of all. He had to live for that loneliness, he decided—for the private life of his mind, for the possibility of flight.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“Sean stands at the edge of the surf, looking out at the sea, and there is something curious and longing in his expression, like he, too, wishes to leap into the ocean and be gone. I think, just then, that this is why Norman Falk asked for Sean to be there. Not because he was the only one who could perform the ritual. But because Sean Kendrick, looking like that, is the races, even if no race was ever run. A reminder of what the horses mean to the island — a bridge between what we are and that thing about Thisby that we all want but can’t seem to touch. When Sean stands there, his face turned out to the sea, he is no more civilized than any of the capaill uisce, and it unsettles me.

My heart feels full and empty with all of the beginnings and endings. Tomorrow is the races with all of their strategy and danger and hope and fear, and on the other side of it is Gabe getting into a boat and leaving us. I feel like Sean looking out over the ocean. I’m so full of an unnamed wanting that I can’t bear it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races