Fatimah W.

“Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“And now here we were, almost a thousand years later, still doing it. Trying to make sense of what was happening around us. Maybe that's what life is, really.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“The earth forgets but I will always remember

Karaoke bars

Pharmacies and cups of tea

And plates of dorayaki”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“It’s absurd, sometimes, the thought that she loves him. He’s grateful, of course, but it feels as though it’s just another of the ridiculous, absurd, dangerous things she does. She wants to fight monsters, and she wants him for a lover, the same boy she fantasized about murdering. She likes nothing easy or safe or sure.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories