Violeta

“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“The lesson is that one must ceaselessly, time and again, compose one’s being.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“I’d know that face anywhere. In wakefulness or in dreams, in daylight or moonlight—in life or death—I’d know it. Rory.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“fact, that’s what we learn from childhood: loss. Starting with the loss of childhood itself. We learn what it was by losing it, and we learn that we’ll lose everything, always. We learn that losing is the indispensable condition for feeling alive, for the intensity of the present. We think that growing up is about accumulating gains: gains in experience, in knowledge, material gains. But that’s a delusion. Growing up means losing. Living our life means accepting that we lose it. Living our life means being able to bid it farewell, at every second.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel