Eliz

“When it seems like the world wants to crush your spirit and burn you alive, never forget my little flames, pressure and heat make diamonds.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“When I met you, I suddenly understood that I wasn’t fire at all. I was ice. Decades of living within this court had me crafting an unyielding, impenetrable façade that only your infuriating and downright excruciating presence has been able to crack.”
― Hazel McBride, A Fate Forged in Fire

“Don’t choose a mediocre life for a mediocre man. Go be exceptional. If he’s worth it, he won’t judge you. And if he’s really the one, he’ll come along for the ride.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“See me. See me for who I am. I am magic. I am human. I am inhuman. See me. I am a boy. I am a girl. I am everything and nothing in between. See me. You do. You see me. You recoil in fear. You scream in anger. See me. I bleed. I ache. You see me, and you wish you hadn’t. You wish I was invisible. Out of sight, out of mind. Unseen, faded, muted. You want my color. You want my joy. You want a monochrome world with monochrome beliefs. You see me, and you want to take it all away. But you can’t. You want me lost, but I am found in the breaths I take, in the spaces between heartbeats. I am found because I refuse to be in black and white, or any shade of gray. I am color. I am fire. I am the sun, and I will burn away the shadows until only light remains. And then you will have no choice but to see”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea