aurora ☾

“You should have killed me," she said at last.
He gave her a long look. She couldn't read his face; what she thought she saw confused her. "But I never wanted you dead.”
― R.F. Kuang

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“But I would look back, wouldn't I? We all would. The ones who can't look back, who could only stare into the sunrise ahead of them, stare into the glorious future, those people don't get to visit Hell.”
― Neil Gaiman

“He knew exactly what choice she'd make and what she'd intended. And that made everything, hating her, loving her, surviving her, so much harder.”
― R. F. Kuang