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

“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“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