Sarah

“Wait a minute. Did you just offer me a bite of an immortal apple?"
"I did."
"Why?"
"Seemed rude not to."
"That's an insane thing to say."
"Well, we all have our flaws.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“There is nothing more telling about a person’s character than the silent wishes they keep to themselves, buried in the little nooks and crannies of their hearts.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“I wish to feel something much, much larger than I am, the girl’s heart replies. I wish to stand on the edge of ruination and defeat, to leap into a chasm full of danger. I wish to feel my blood turn cold with fear and my cheeks burn bright with shame; I wish to feel joy that fills my lungs, and sadness that swells within me like a current. I wish to feel so much and so deeply that it washes over me in waves. I wish to drag myself towards something; I wish to lose pieces of myself along the way. I wish for hunger that drives me, for passion that fulfills me, for sensations of taking and having and losing and wanting, and I wish for all of it to come with a price, and a steep one—and then I wish for the courage to pay. Isn’t it all good because it’s something? she asks. Isn’t it all bad because beneath it—any of it, her wish sighs—I may collapse? Mayra”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“Very few people can handle being held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down;”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience