♤Nora

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

“I need you to know I never meant it. I said it because I thought that’s what you’re supposed to say, but it didn’t mean anything. And it’s different with you. This is the first time I’ve been scared. Scared you’ll change your mind. Scared I’ll screw it up. Aces, Cress, I’m terrified of you.” Her stomach fluttered. He didn’t look terrified. “Here’s the thing.” Thorne crawled over her legs and lay down beside her, boots and all. “You deserve better than some thief who’s going to end up in jail again. Everyone knows it. Even I know it. But you seem determined to believe I’m actually a decent guy who’s halfway worthy of you. So, what scares me most”—he twisted a lock of her hair between his fingers—“is that someday even you will realize that you can do better.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“words have the power o change us”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess