Jonathan Carter

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I know what it's like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that. And the odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“It shouldn’t matter what your parents did, just what you do as a person.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows