“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”
― Finnikin of the Rock
― Finnikin of the Rock
“Kizzy wanted to be a woman who would dive off the prow of a sailboat into the sea, who would fall back in a tangle of sheets, laughing, and who could dance a tango, lazily stroke a leopard with her bare foot, freeze an enemy's blood with her eyes, make promises she couldn't possibly keep, and then shift the world to keep them. She wanted to write memoirs and autograph them at a tiny bookshop in Rome, with a line of admirers snaking down a pink-lit alley. She wanted to make love on a balcony, ruin someone, trade in esoteric knowledge, watch strangers as coolly as a cat. She wanted to be inscrutable, have a drink named after her, a love song written for her, and a handsome adventurer's small airplane, champagne-christened Kizzy, which would vanish one day in a windstorm in Arabia so that she would have to mount a rescue operation involving camels, and wear an indigo veil against the stinging sand, just like the nomads.
Kizzy wanted.”
― Lips Touch: Three Times
Kizzy wanted.”
― Lips Touch: Three Times
“You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path.”
― Under a Painted Sky
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path.”
― Under a Painted Sky
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