♡ alison ♡

“Chess is a bad idea.
Why?
Look where it got me.
It got you here. To me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“And if you could constantly reinvent yourself, cut away the parts of you that ashamed or hurt you, then how could you ever come to really know someone else? Were people all just living paradoxes, keeping up an illusion just long enough to survive contact with others? Were people then all a series of lies in the end?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I felt my heart break into a million pieces as I watched you leave, and yet every tiny shard of that broken heart still loves you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Sometimes I’m scared that I imagined you. Sometimes I think you’re only in my head.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate