Francisca

“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay