Christine

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“She was wiser than she’d been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life … or her love for the duration of this war … or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe