olivia *:･ﾟ✧

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“He says, “It wasn’t the same with them, do you understand? It wasn’t like how it was with you. I loved you, Vanessa. I loved you.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Her archetype captures innocence in a woman, a girl trapped in between child and adult....I was in that ephemeral in-between, that space and moment of wanting both and not knowing when to let go of either. Can't I have it all?”
― Alisson Wood, Being Lolita

“I soar, trailing a maple-red comet tail. I’m no longer myself; I am no one. I’m a red balloon caught in the boughs of a tree. I’m nothing at all.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa