Carolina

“If he finds the firebird, we may just stand a chance."
"And if he doesn't?"
Nikolai shrugged. "We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Once he has kicked off his boots and peeled off his winter layers, Zachary takes out the book. He turns it over in his hands and then puts it down on his desk. It doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Do you ever wonder about that? About the fact that life is coming at us so damn fast? And we’re racing towards it with our heads down, and so we’re so busy running that we won’t even notice when it hits us? I wonder what happens to us when it does. I mean, what if the impact completely annihilates us, and we just disappear into dust without even realizing what happened?”
― Chloe Fowler, Chasing Fireflies

“Everyone is part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording. It’s that fear of mortality”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea