alissa ☆

“Morning”
“God is dead.”
“Coffee?”
“Fuck you.”
“Again?”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Becoming of Noah Shaw

“We are all children of blood and bone.
All instruments of vengeance and virtue.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Oh, do be quiet. That was a lapse in judgement,’ I say, waving a hand dismissively. ‘I was young and foolish.’

‘You did it for four years.’

I glare at her. ‘It was a very long lapse in judgement.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“She fascinated me, her contradictions, her secrets, and the girl that sometimes surfaced from beneath her tough soldier exterior, like when she spotted the wish stalks on the bank. The girl who forgot who I was and pressed a wish stalk to my ankle. In another world, another circumstance, I think we might have been friends. Or more.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves