Ivania

“Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together.

“Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.”
“Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“It just gets really heavy sometimes.” He looks away. “Too heavy. Even for me. And some days I
don’t want to laugh,” he says. “I don’t want to be funny. I don’t want to give a shit about anything.
Some days I just want to sit on my ass and cry. All day long.” His hands stop moving against the mats.
“Is that crazy?” he asks quietly, still not meeting my gaze.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me