Bailey menard

“Abandon her? Which of us has been abandoned, I want to ask. You’re not the one stuck with a lifetime’s worth of memories in a body that’s slowly withering away.”
― Lisa Ridzén, When the Cranes Fly South

“We used to sit here like this together, you and me, getting lost in the flames. We were similar in that regard. Never quite felt at home if there wasn’t a fire. There were days when a whole morning might pass without us noticing. We probably had the radio on, and you were almost certainly busy making something. ‘Time’s strange, isn’t it,’ I say after a while. She meets my eye but doesn’t speak. ‘Sometimes it moves so slowly, and then suddenly…’ I move my hand as fast as I can, demonstrating the way that twenty years of my life just happened.
‘That’s the sort of thing we don’t think about as children,’ says the priest. ‘We just were, you know?”
― Lisa Ridzén, When the Cranes Fly South

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower