Cassandra (Thebookishcrypt)

“Have you even held a command?” Nikolai asked. I’d once led a seminar of junior mapmakers, but I didn’t think that was what he meant.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Did you ever notice me at Keramzin?"
He was silent for a long moment, and when I glanced at him, he was looking up at the glass ceiling. He'd gone red as a beet.
"Mal?"
He cleared his throat, crossed his arms. "As a matter of fact, I did. I had some very ... distracting thoughts about you."
"You did?" I sputtered.
"And I felt guilty for every one of them. You were supposed to be my best friend, not ..." He shrugged and turned even redder.
"Idiot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“These dreams are almost like reentering a part in a book that was dog-eared, continuing right where I left off the last time I awoke.”
― E.J. Mellow, The Dreamer

“What are you wrapped up in?' Roan whispered. Her anger and frustration had shifted to a sympathy that grated Vhalla.'I'm simply learning where I'm meant to be.' It was the only response because it was the truth.”
― Elise Kova