Stephanie

“wants, desperately, to destroy us. A part of us that longs for our own annihilation. It tells you to jump when you stand beside a tall drop-off. It makes you want to put a knife through your own hand when you’re chopping vegetables for dinner. It is hungry and it is corrosive, and it will come for your soul and your sanity. Which is why all of us must work actively against it, or else it will succeed.” The”
― Alexis Henderson, An Academy for Liars

“A heart of stone can still be broken.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Maybe none of us truly know our own strength. Not until the world has hacked away at us. But the point is, we aren’t strong because of our trauma.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“Love should feel urgent. A rush of emotion, an inescapable need. A spark and passion that consumed everything, that burned away caution and fear and left only desire.”
― Kiersten White, The Camelot Betrayal