Robert O Mahony

“All stories begin before they start and never, ever finish.”
― Patrick Ness, The Crane Wife

“i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This