Chiamay

“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“As if they were kicking a memory back and forth, a memory of a woman who insisted on seeing more potential in certain men than they saw in themselves. Neither of them have what to do with their shared experience.”
― Fredrik Backman , A Man Called Ove