Jessamine

“I’d give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars”
― Woody Guthrie

“The city’s more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“losing through you what seemed myself, i find
selves unimaginably mine, beyond
sorrow’s own joys and hoping’s very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:
yours is the darkness of my soul’s return
- you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we’re going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We’re going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We’re going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?"

Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and bravado."

"And yet strangely lacking in any sort of actual strategy," said Scarlet.

"Oh, good, I'm glad you noticed that too," said Iko. "I was worried my processor might be glitching.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter