Sydney Rhoades

“Because I think that by beauty, you don’t just meaning something thats pretty. You mean something that makes us human. The urn, you say, is a ‘friend to man’. It will live beyond its generation, and the next ones, and your poem is like that, too. You died almost two hundred years ago, when you were only twenty-five. But the words that you left are still alive”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“I was a coward who needed someone to tell me i was worth something before i took any steps to save myself.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships i formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I like the way he makes me feel about myself when i am with him. Warner thinks I’m strong and smart and capable and actually values my opinion. He makes me feel like his equal- like i can accomplish just as much as he can, and more. And if i do something incredible, he’s not even surprised. He expects it. He doesn't treat me like I’m some fragile little girl who needs to be protected all the time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me