Paulien

“Stay,” she panted. Tears leaked from her eyes. “Stay till the end.”
“And after,” he said. “And always.”
“I want to feel safe again. I want to go home to Ravka.”
“Then I’ll take you there. We’ll set fire to raisins or whatever you heathens do for fun.”
“Zealot,” she said weakly.
“Witch.”
“Barbarian.”
“Nina,” he whispered, “little red bird. Don’t go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca