cecilie.

“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Where do you start someone’s story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning, nor is death exactly an end?”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“The world is unfair, said Meryem. "If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls on a stone, it is still bad for the egg.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“anyone who expects love to be sensible has perhaps never loved.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees