Oda K.

“I never got to tell him again that he really was wrong, that miles didn’t matter, not if you loved someone. That borders and oceans weren’t obstacles, not for the mind. I wished I’d been able to tell him these things, because saying them out loud to someone real, instead of a mirror or a picture postcard, would have made them all the more convincing.”
― Emylia Hall, The Book of Summers

“Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, At Last