Bessy

“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems