Hannah

“The frost in his eyes is cracking and, behind it, the green of the
first buds of spring. "When I was young," he says, "I was afraid of
everything. Atreus's hounds, Agamemnon's games, mutilated bodies,
angry slaves. Wherever I looked, I feared.
I learned to overcome those fears. I had to, or I would have died. But
something stayed inside me, a feeling of rootlessness, of floating
through life trying not to drown."
She listens though she doesn't know that sensation. Every step she has
taken since she was a child had a direction. And it brought her here.
He stares at her. "But now I know that I belong with you."
She closes her eyes and savors the feel of his hand against her own. He
doesn't know this, but he gave her a chance too, which no one else did.
He told her: Look I am as damaged as you, but here I am.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“I'll be all right. I'm a big, tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“A nose was a blessed thing to have on your face, no matter how stubby and unimportant it looked to others.”
― Ruth Sawyer, The Year of Jubilo

“But maybe this is how broken people keep living. They find someone as broken, fit them into the empty spaces of their hearts and, together, grow into something different.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra